The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum

Tour the Key West house where Hemingway wrote in the 1930s and meet the six-toed cats that roam its gardens.

907 Whitehead St · Key West, FL

About The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum

Ernest Hemingway lived in this 1851 house on Whitehead Street from 1931 to 1939 and wrote works including To Have and Have Not here. Admission includes a 20 to 30 minute guided tour, with tours starting every 15 minutes. Dozens of cats live on the grounds, about half of them six-toed, and the museum says some descend from Snow White, a cat given to Hemingway by a ship's captain. The 60-foot pool, added in 1937, was the first in the Florida Keys.

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