Key West - Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum

Hemingway was one of the first important writers to live in Key West. He bought this 1851 Spanish Colonial house in 1931 and lived in it until 1940. It features his lush tropical garden and the salt-water pool, that he claimed nearly wiped him out financially, contains his "last penny" pressed into the concrete. Descendants of Hemingway's original brood of house cats still roam the property. He wrote a number of novels here including "A Farewell to Arms" and "Death in the Afternoon" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls".