Hemingway's Havana: A Reflection of the Writer's Life in Cuba
By Robert Wheeler and América Fuentes
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Robert Wheeler
Robert Wheeler fondly recalls time spent with his daughters along Boston’s Freedom Trail, from pushing a stroller, to walking hand-in-hand. The rich and fascinating stories evoked by each historic site, as well as the exceptional charm of Boston’s quaint city streets, shops, and restaurants, lured him back again and again, inspiring this sensory and absorbing book. Robert is also the author of Hemingway’s Paris: A Writer’s City in Words and Images and Hemingway’s Havana: A Reflection of the Writer’s Life in Cuba. He lives near the sea in New Castle, New Hampshire, with his wife, Meme.
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Hemingway's Havana - Robert Wheeler
Also by Robert Wheeler
Hemingway’s Paris: A Writer’s City in Words and Images
Copyright © 2018 by Robert Wheeler
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Wheeler, Robert, 1963– author.
Title: Hemingway’s Havana : a reflection of the writer’s life in Cuba / Robert Wheeler.
Description: New York : Skyhorse Publishing, [2018]
Identifiers: LCCN 2017046291 (print) | LCCN 2017046417 (ebook) | ISBN 9781510732667 (ebook) | ISBN 9781510732650 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Hemingway, Ernest, 1899–1961–Homes and haunt–Cuba. | Hemingway, Ernest, 1899–1961–Knowledge–Cuba. | Authors, American–20th Century–Biography. | Americans–Cub–Biography. | Cuba–Description and travel.
Classification: LCC PS3515.E37 (ebook) | LCC PS3515.E37 Z945 2018 (print) | DDC 813/.52 [B]–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017046291
Cover design by Erin Seaward-Hiatt
Cover photo by Robert Wheeler
Printed in China
Para Meme … mi inspiradora. Sólo quiero decirte una vez más: aquí estoy para ti. Hoy te amo más que ayer.
For Meme … my inspirer. I just want you to know that I am here for you. Today, I love you more than yesterday.
Contents
FOREWORD by América Fuentes
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
THE SEA
THE LAND
THE WORK
THE VISIT
FINCA VIGÍA, SAN FRANCISCO DE PAULA
WALKS
HOTELS
RESTAURANTS
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
He would rather fish than eat or sleep.
Foreword
By América Fuentes Translated from the Spanish by Carla Estrada
My grandfather, Gregorio Fuentes, met Ernest Heming-way in the Dry Tortugas. They were both staying there to protect themselves from an oncoming storm. My grandfather helped Hemingway make a phone call to the States to let people know he was not lost and was safe. Thankful for his help, Hemingway promised that he would find my grandfather and see him in Cuba one day. Hemingway kept his promise, came to Cuba, and looked for six months, but did not find him. Then one day, someone placed a call to Hemingway and told him that Gregorio was on shore and that Hemingway could meet him. Hemingway left immediately for this specific reason. They met—ate, drank, and spoke—and Hemingway proposed that Gregorio become the captain of his boat, the Pilar. From that time, to the day Hemingway died, they were forever together.
For me, the presence of Hemingway in my village and at my house daily was so normal that I never saw him as a famous person. He was like part of my family, and we treated him like a member of my family. The thing that I liked, and loved, about the friendship of my grandfather and Hemingway was the genuineness and passion and the dedication and affection they both shared of the sea. The experience and knowledge my grandfather had about the secrets of the sea impressed Hemingway. My grandfather often said that, always, he would do whatever the sea expected of him.
Something else they shared in common was how a man should be … how he must live. A man must be friendly and honest, and simple and humble, and have a sense of solidarity. In their eyes, men had to possess these traits to be real men and to be counted. Hemingway and my grandfather—they were not just about the sea but also about how a man must behave in the world.
Both Hemingway and my grandfather took Cuba as their second home. My grandfather was from Spain, the Canary Islands. He came to Cuba very young in a boat from Spain as a hired cabin boy. When the boat came into the bay of Havana, he jumped over the