When George and I decided to make a stop in Key West, I knew we had to visit the Hemingway house. I’m not the biggest Hemingway fan, but I was an English major and I’m a total cat lady.

6 toes!

Do you know about Hemingway’s cats? Apparently when he was alive he had a whole menagerie of animals. His sons even kept raccoons as pets! But the most famous of his animals are his cats. His cats’ descendants still roam the property today. The cats are said to be lucky because most of them have 6 toes.

I was dying to get one of the cats to sit on my lap and bring me good luck. But like most kitties, they wanted nothing to do with me, the human. The cat pictured above, named Hairy Truman, let us pet him so that quelled my inner cat lady a bit. The 40-or so cats roam the property freely and pretty much have it made.

The architecture of the house is as equally stunning as the cats. I was dying over the tile in the bathroom (pictured above.)

The chair in which Hemingway wrote.

Hemingway’s bed, complete with a cat!

Have you ever visited Hemingway’s Key West house? Did you pet the kitties?! Let me know in the comments!

love,
melanie