Tribute to Hemingway

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong
in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.
It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.
If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too
but there will be no special hurry.

- Ernest Hemingway -
from A Farewell to Arms, 1929

July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961

Hemingway with one of his cats

Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum

Ernest Hemingway Collection
© John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

Hemingway's Cats

Ernest Hemingway always had cats as companions, from the ones he adored as a child in Illinois and Michigan, to the more than 30 he had as an adult in Paris, Key West, Cuba and Idaho.