American writer Ernest Hemingway at a bullfight in Pamplona, Spain. According to Vanity Fair, the month of July for Hemingway meant an annual trip to Pamplona to take part in the San Fermin bullfighting festival. He went there for the first time in 1923 with his first wife Hadley Richardson. She was pregnant with their son at that time and was calmly by his side, stitching clothes for their baby. She had later commented on it as “embroidering in the presence of all that brutality”. Photo: AFP

Ernest Hemingway reading a letter to learn that he won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel 'The Old Man and the Sea'. It was one of his most famous works. The story focuses on Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman, who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba. ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ has been adapted thrice for the screen: a 1958 film starring Spencer Tracy, a 1990 miniseries starring Anthony Quinn, and a 1999 animated short film. Photo: AFP

Ernest Hemingway with his wife Mary Welsh in Havana. The American journalist and author was the fourth wife and widow of Hemingway. Welsh met Hemingway while covering the war in London in 1944, and they became close. In 1945, she divorced her husband Noel Monks, an Australian journalist, and in 1946, she married Hemingway in a ceremony in Cuba. Photo: AFP

A bookshelf and hunting souvenirs in the study of the Finca Vigia colonial residence, 21 km from Havana, where Ernest Hemingway lived for 21 years. Finca Vigia was reopened to the public after having its facade restored by Cuban and US experts as the first stage of a general refurbishment of the residence-museum. Photo: AFP

A sculpture of Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana in 2011. In Cuba, people can go on a trail of the Nobel Prize-winning author at destinations dedicated to Hemingway's life on the island. "My daiquiri at the Floridita, my mojito at the Bodeguita," wrote Hemingway, who lived some 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the bars, in his home, Finca Vigia, a colonial structure in the tropical jungle, west of Havana.  Photo: AFP /Adalberto Roque 

A few tourists visit the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum, where the American writer lived with his wife Pauline in the 1930s in Key West, Florida. Hemingway's Florida home is in trouble, but his cats still get visitors. The home is barely surviving due to the lack of international visitors. Almost their entire staff was laid off during the pandemic. But the six-toed cats that inhabit it still attract local tourists. Photo: AFP/Leila Macor