Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum

Ernest Hemingway, the American author whose ideas of courage and honor in a confusing and hostile world remain as inspiration to this day. Experience the calming contrast that this Key West home offered this complex man as you take a leisurely and inspiring tour of his mansion and gardens. Browse as long as you like here where Hemingway penned most of his greatest novels and short stories.

The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum is home to approximately sixty cats. Normal cats have five front toes and four back toes. About half of the cats at the museum are polydactyl, which means they have extra toes. Most cats have extra toes on their front feet and sometimes on their back feet as well. Sometimes it looks as if they are wearing mittens because they appear to have a thumb on their paw.