Hemingway’s Six-Toed Cats Ride Out Hurricane Irma in Key West
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Hemingway’s Six-Toed Cats Ride Out Hurricane Irma in Key West
After that, he said, “hopefully, things will get back to normal in Key West and we’ll enjoy our life in paradise.”
Though she is not involved in the operations of the house,
and was not even sure how to get in touch with Ms. Sands as Irma approached, Ms. Hemingway said she had been “horribly nervous for everybody.”
Live, updated maps showing where the storm has made landfall and how much of the state has been hit by tropical-storm- and hurricane-force winds.
But now that the storm has passed and all the denizens of the house are safe, she said in an interview on Monday, “I think it’s great
that they cared enough to try to really protect all things Hemingway.
The 54 cats, many of them descendants of a white polydactyl cat owned by Ernest Hemingway,
live at the writer’s house in Key West, Fla., which was hit hard by Hurricane Irma.
They remodeled the house, which was in a state of disrepair, filled its rooms with European antiques
and Hemingway’s big-game hunting trophies, and spent $20,000 building the first in-ground pool in Key West.
The cats, she said, would come inside when the barometric pressure dropped,
and they and their human attendants would be safe within the 18-inch-thick limestone walls of the house.
After that, he said, “hopefully, things will get back to normal in Key West and we’ll enjoy our life in paradise.”
Though she is not involved in the operations of the house,
and was not even sure how to get in touch with Ms. Sands as Irma approached, Ms. Hemingway said she had been “horribly nervous for everybody.”
Live, updated maps showing where the storm has made landfall and how much of the state has been hit by tropical-storm- and hurricane-force winds.
But now that the storm has passed and all the denizens of the house are safe, she said in an interview on Monday, “I think it’s great
that they cared enough to try to really protect all things Hemingway.
The 54 cats, many of them descendants of a white polydactyl cat owned by Ernest Hemingway,
live at the writer’s house in Key West, Fla., which was hit hard by Hurricane Irma.
They remodeled the house, which was in a state of disrepair, filled its rooms with European antiques
and Hemingway’s big-game hunting trophies, and spent $20,000 building the first in-ground pool in Key West.
The cats, she said, would come inside when the barometric pressure dropped,
and they and their human attendants would be safe within the 18-inch-thick limestone walls of the house.