Even during lunchtime at the dining table, the family cats share the event with Ernest Hemingway and Mary Welsh.

These photos were taken in 1954 prior to Ernest HEMINGWAY's visit to Sweden to collect the Nobel Prize for Literature (1954) and show him and his wife Mary Welsh at their home in Cuba. It is called LA FINCA VIGIA (Lookout Farm) and is located in San Francisco de Paula in Cuba amongst thirteen acres of land and gardens, and an orchard, an oasis in the decaying Cuban town.