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Ernest Hemingway’s homestead in Cuba

Ernest Hemingway's homestead in San Francisco de Paula is lovingly preserved. Visitors can't enter the house but can look inside, imagining that the writer has just left the room.

Ernest Hemingway’s homestead in San Francisco de Paula is lovingly preserved. Visitors can’t enter the house but can look inside, imagining that the writer has just left the room.

(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

May 8, 2015 10:05 AM PT

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Interior of Ernest Hemingway house near Havana, Cuba, on May 5, 2015.

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Hemingway’s library at the home known as Finca Vigía, or Lookout Farm.

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Hunting trophies adorn the walls of Hemingway’s home.

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Another interior shot of Hemingway’s home.

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The swimming pool area at Hemingway’s home.

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Hemingway’s boat, Pilar, dry docked at the Hemingway home and museum.

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The bow of Ernest Hemingway’s boat, Pilar.

His 1954 Nobel Prize-winning novel “The Old Man and the Sea” was set in Cuba, written in Cuba and is still taught in Cuban schools.

(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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