The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum, one of the top Key West, Florida attractions, is a beautiful Spanish Colonial style mansion built in 1851 from rock native to the area. Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline first moved here in 1931 when Pauline’s rich uncle Gus bought the house for them.

The house still features the Hemingways’ personal effects and unique European antiques they collected during their many trips.

Hemingway brought the animal trophies and skins scattered around the house from his African safaris and hunting expeditions.

Visiting the studio where Hemingway produced so many of his wonderful books is particularly exciting.

It was in this studio that he wrote his novel about the Key West in the Great Depression "To Have and Have Not." Interestingly, the museum serves as a home to the numerous descendants of Hemingway’s six-toed cat.

907 Whitehead Street, Key West, Florida, Phone: 305-294-1136

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