The Havana of Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway had a special relationship with Cuba that stretched over many decades. He settled in Finca Vig?a - his “outlook farm,” a thirty minute drive from downtown Havana - for the last 22 years of his life.

He was shortly to finish the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls and soon after was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Wooden African sculptures, a piece of white ceramic from Picasso's workshop, wooden African sculptures, the skull bones of lions, many cats, and 9,000 books he treasured in his life made Gabriel García Márquez exclaim after many years: “What a peculiar library this man possessed!”

Hemingway first arrived in Cuba in April of 1928. He was accompanied by his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, and later travelled from Havana to Key West where he finished writing AFarewell to Arms