The Cats at Key West's Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum

In 1935, famed author Ernest Hemingway received a cat named "Snowball" while living and writing in Key West. With paws featuring six toes, "Snowball" was the first of a long line of felines that has helped make the Hemingway Home and Museum one of the most popular visitor attractions in the Florida Keys.

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[Leslie Lavery]

Why would anyone complain about the cats??? They look happy, well taken care of & seem to have a great environment. I love the idea of having 50 cats & that they are all descendants from his original snowball. Just wonderful!!! Shame on that person who made a "federal" case out of this.

[hagirl62]

Sweet!

[VelvetGal5]

NIce video. I visited the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum with an ex-boyfriend. He had 2 cats of his own. The cats were all nice there in Key West, Florida. I think this place & the Cat Sanctuary amongst the Roman ruins in Rome, Italy are some of the nice places I visited in connection to cats.

[Osel Somar]

Oh, I am a cat-hating racist.

You figured me out.

[atdejong]

Show me some one who makes anonymous hate filled comments on the web, and I'll show you, well, a mirror. But looking at your comment history, im sure you're well aware how racist you are.

[Barbara Standing]

These cats look happy and well taken care of~

[mlongwel]

New insight into Hemingway's suicide: Toxoplasmosis Gondii

[vallettam]

"Hemmaway"

[rumbler227]

50 cats?!...No wonder he killed himself