KEYS TO SURVIVAL
Ernest Hemingway found solace and drink in Key West. For more than a decade, the novelist famously made his home in the southernmost place in the US. There, in a cramped writing studio in a carriage house, he wrote several short stories, as well as his 1937 novel To Have and Have Not—his only work set in Key West. It tells the story of a desperate fisherman who gets caught up in human smuggling and running contraband between Cuba and the US.
Today, the Hemingway Home is a tourist hot spot. One of Key West’s top attractions, the residence and museum is equally famous for its furry, four-legged residents as it is for its noted scribe; the property is overrun with polydactyl cats. Legend says
