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| Above, two of the Hemingway Home cats. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
During the cruise to Havana, Cuba, our ship stopped at Key West, Florida for the day.
While there, I went to the Shipwreck Museum, a cigar shop, a outdoor patio bar and Hemingway Home.
At Hemingway Home, I saw several descendants of author Ernest Hemingway's cats. Some of the cats have six toes. They wandered around the property and mingles with visitors. There's also a cat cemetery on the property.
Garden & Gun has posted an article on the cats.
It begins with:
When the Hemingway Home first opened its foliage-framed gates to the public sixty years ago, visitors got to enter the preserved Key West oasis that inspired one of America’s literary heroes. Today, the property looks much as it did when Ernest Hemingway lived there in the 1930s: typewriters are strewn about desks, vibrant mustard-colored art deco tiles line bathrooms, and of course, dozens upon dozens of six-toed cats roam. “We have fifty-nine cats at the moment, and about half of them have extra toes,” says Alexa Morgan, the director of public relations at the Hemingway Home and Museum.
To read more, go here.
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