Hemingway and His Cats

When nine lives aren’t long enough for love

Deborah Barchi
The Haven
Published in
2 min readApr 17, 2021

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Image by Averette via Wikimedia.org

I just finished watching the three part Ken Burns special about the life and loves of Hemingway. We learned quite a bit about the wives, but not that much about the dozens of cats with whom Hemingway was totally enamored.

In one photograph from the program, we see a cat atop Hemingway’s desk, obviously insistent on being the…

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Deborah Barchi
The Haven

Deborah Barchi has recently retired from her career as a librarian and now has time to read, explore nature, and write poetry and essays.