Hemingway Adventure (1999) (22 page)
One of the sacred typewriters being lovingly cleaned by the staff.
Hemingway on the driveway followed by one of the fifty-seven cats. The house was found for him by his third wife, Martha Gellhorn.
Hemingway’s favourite boat, the
Pilar
, enshrined in the grounds of Finca Vigia. He left it to his captain Gregorio Fuentes, who in turn left it to the government.
On the outside looking in. Because of the delicate state of Hemingway’s perfectly preserved possessions you have to be stuffed, or working for the BBC, to get inside the house.
Hemingway working the Gulf Stream.
Memorial on the waterfront at Cojimar is a tribute from the locals.
A concrete fisherman in the grounds of ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ Hotel, Marina Hemingway.
No marlin today, which is why they call it fishing, not catching.
A luckier fisherman.
Gregorio Fuentes, 101, tells me of the heydays with Hemingway at Cojimar (overleaf) where Hemingway kept his boat.
Bison herds were once so big that it took early explorers ten days to ride through them. Now the sight of a solitary bison brings cars to a halt on the road.
