Hemingway House: Snowball’s Six-Toed Descendants Can Stay
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 09.26.08 | 12:45 PM ET
The U.S. Department of Agriculture had talked of fining the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West thousands of dollars a day, claiming the museum couldn’t qualify for a license for the 50 or so cats residing there—descendants of Hemingway’s cat, “Snowball.”
Now museum operators have announced they have come to an agreement with the government that allows the cats to stay.
Which means the “mildly Hitchcockian scene” created by the cats, as writer Doug Mack once described it for World Hum, will stay that way—for better or worse.
Related on World Hum:
* Cat Fight Breaks Out at Hemingway’s Key West Home
* I Still Don’t Know for Whom the Bell Tolls
* ‘Ernest Hemingway on Writing’
* Recalling Hemingway’s ‘A Moveable Feast’
Photo by Florida Keys—Public Libraries via Flickr, (Creative Commons).
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
