Our Visit To Ernest Hemingway's House and His Six-toed Cats
in Key West, Florida,
The legendary American novelist Ernest Hemingway lived in Key West for a decade in the 1930s, in a stone mansion on Whitehead Street with his wife, Pauline, and a six-toed cat named Snowball
Fourty-six descendants of Ernest Hemingway's polydactyl (six-toed) cats
still inhabit his former home in Key West, which was turned into a museum in 1964. Now, the authorities want the proprietors of Hemingway House to license the cats under the Animal Welfare Act.
The US department of agriculture wants to fine the museum's owners up to $200 a day for "exhibiting" the animals without a licence, according to a lawsuit filed in Miami, but the trustees insist that tourists pay to see the house, of which the cats are merely residents.
Some residents of Hemingways
and
Fencing has been installed to keep the cats in
Living Quarters
The Cemetery
We have our own polydactyl cat here at Domino's House.
His name is Stranger.
He would love for you to come by and visit him, and for you to see the other cat's available for adoption here at Domino's House.
