Ernest Hemingway saw Cuba while traveling from France to the USA for the first time. 10 years after, he decided to move to this island, which he liked so much. At first, the writer lived in the room of the Ambos Mundos Hotel. But later, on his third wife, the famous journalist Martha Geller’s insistence, he rented a mansion in a suburb of Havana. Sometime later, he bought the mansion and even built 4 more rooms for guests visiting the writer rather often.
The house was named “Finca la Vigia” or “House with a view” because the windows of the mansion offer beautiful views of the sea and the surroundings of Havana. The house became a museum after the death of the writer when the fourth wife of Hemingway offered it to the Cuban authorities.
The interior of the house is preserved in its original style. In the house, there is a huge collection of books, placed in cupboards along the walls. It contains about nine thousand volumes in different languages of the world. There also are the writer's personal belongings: badges, photographs, letters, numerous souvenirs, and other items telling about the life and passions of Hemingway. Here, on the walls, you can see a lot of artifacts illustrating the hobbies of Hemingway's father: about the guns, fishing rigging, and even stuffed animals.
A bedroom is a special place in the house because there is a famous typewriter which used Ernest. With it, in this house, he wrote many works, including “The Old Man and the Sea” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls”.
Hemingway House is surrounded by the green. It was used for pets-walking. The writer adored cats and took some to the house. Some time later, they bred, and the small number of pets turned to the tens. But love for these furry animals was so big that Hemingway was keeping them all and loved everyone.