Hemingway's Dreams in Cuba,
A bust and heartfelt emotions in Havana

Travelers from around the world are perpetually fascinated by the enduring imprint of United States novelist Ernest Hemingway on the Cuban capital. A well-known figure for Cubans, especially for those in Havana, Hemingway has become part of the cultural identity of the island.

One of his phrases, "I am a sato (common) Cuban," is fixed in Cuban's deep remembrance of this famous man, this lover of adventure, fishing and hunting.

In the fishing village of Cojímar, the setting for his emblematic work The Old Man and the Sea, there is a bust of Hemingway made from the smelting of old anchors collected by his fishermen friends to perpetuate his memory.

Hemingway lived continuously in Havana for more than 20 years, from the 1930s on, and he was a regular patron of the Floridita, a bar on the corner of Obispo and Monserrate in Old Havana that opened in July 1817.

Besides his home, Finca Vigia, outside of Havana, his rooms at the Ambos Mundos Hotel, and the annual marlin tournaments still held in his memory, perhaps the...