The Hemingway House in Key West was the home of US Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway and his second wife Pauline for a good ten years. It is now a private museum. Built in 1851 in American Colonial style, the building has a wrap-around porch and is set in a large park-like garden. About 40 cats live in it today, all descendants of Hemingway's own cats. Some of the original furniture has been preserved in the house.
Ernest Hemingway first came to Key West in 1928 on the recommendation of his colleague John Dos Passos. In 1931 the uncle of his second wife Pauline gave him the building. It was here that Hemingway wrote "Green Hills of Africa" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and liked to go deep sea fishing in Key West. The home was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1968.
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