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Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum

Key West, FL · Florida Keys

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Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote in this 1851 limestone house from 1931 to 1939, turning out To Have and Have Not and the Kilimanjaro stories in the studio out back. The descendants of his six-toed cats still nap on the porches and under the furniture, dozens of them, named for old movie stars in the writer's own tradition. Wander the shuttered French Colonial rooms, find the penny Pauline pressed into the deck of the saltwater pool, and the place feels less like a museum than a house someone just stepped out of.

Highlights

Hemingway's 1931-1939 home and writing studioDozens of six-toed cats descended from Snow WhiteFirst in-ground pool in Key West, with Pauline's penny1851 French Colonial house, a National Historic Landmark

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