Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum

Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum preserves the 1851 Spanish Colonial house in Key West that Ernest Hemingway and Pauline Pfeiffer bought in 1931, anchoring his life here until 1939 as he shaped a lean prose style that helped define American modernism. The detached garden studio suggests a daily discipline set slightly apart from the household, while the late-1930s in-ground pool—once the island’s first—captures his flair for costly, defiant gestures. In the shade, the famous six-toed cats keep his legend tangible and local.