For Hemingway, Cuba was a place to relax (the waters off Cojimar, where he docked his fishing boat, the Pilar ... or Lookout Farm, where Ernest Hemingway had made his home from 1939 to 1960 ...

Tim O’Brien, on death in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" Ernest Hemingway reading on his boat, Pilar, 1947-1948. Credit: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum ...