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The Hemingway Cats

6/1/2024

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Give me one word that you associate with Ernest Hemingway. Writer? Outdoorsman? Fishing? Hunting?

How about, cats? If you look hard enough you can find a picture of Hemingway with a hunting dog, but you'll find many pictures of him with his cats or just pictures of his cats. Here are a few I thought you might enjoy. 
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Ernest Hemingway’s cat Big Boy Peterson sits among papers in front of a window with a view of Bald Mountain at Hemingway’s home in Ketchum, Idaho, undated. Ernest Hemingway Photographs Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
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Ernest Hemingway and his cat, Boise, outside his home, Finca Vigia, in Cuba. Ernest Hemingway Photographs Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
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Patrick “Mouse” Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway, and Gregory “Gigi” Hemingway with three cats (Good Will, Princessa, and Boise) at Finca Vigia, Cuba, November 1946. Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. 
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Mary Hemingway with cat, Boise.  Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba. Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. 
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A whole lot of cats with Mary Welsh Hemingway in the doorway. Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. 
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    Rick Just has been writing about Idaho history since 1989 when he wrote and recorded scripts for the Idaho Centennial Commission’s daily radio program, Idaho Snapshots. One of his Idaho books explores the history of Idaho's state parks: Images of America, Idaho State Parks. Rick also writes a regular column for Boise Weekly.

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