The Nobel Literature Prize winning author responsible for fine works like "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "A Farewell to Arms" is ingrained in a few cities across the world, as the famous adventurer lived in some of the most iconic places on Earth - and that includes Ernest Hemingway's Havana home.
As a part of the larger effort to bring the United States and Cuba together following the normalization of the two countries' relations, Ernest Hemingway's Havana house, actually a few miles away from the Cuban capital, will be restored in a joint effort between the two governments.
According to CNN, the deal to restore Ernest Hemingway's Havana home came from the joint efforts of an American nonprofit, Finca Vigia Foundation (named after the famous house), and the Cuban government, and it includes an agreement to import construction materials from the United States to help the efforts in preserving the landmark
It was during Ernest Hemingway's Havana stay that he wrote his biggest critical smash, "The Old Man and the Sea," the book ultimately mentioned at the time of his Nobel, about a poor Cuban fisherman trying to fight a gigantic force-of-nature fish in the middle of the Caribbean, ultimately losing himself to thoughts.
News India Express reports that Ernest Hemingway's Havana home will be getting $860,000 worth of construction supplies from the United States, to improve the architectural conditions of the landmark, which contains a number of the writer's documents, letters and even rough drafts of published and unpublished works.
"It's historic, not since the 1950s has a building with American materials been built here," said Mary-Jo Adams, executive director of Finca Vigia Foundation, based in Boston, MA, according to Click on Detroit.
Hemingway lived in Cuba for decades, from 1939 (after the Republican side was defeated in the Spanish Civil War, where the author participated) until 1961, shortly before the United States government cut ties with the island, then a Soviet collaborator.
Last year, Angelina Jolie famously gave husband Brad Pitt a typewriter that had once belonged to the author.
The Foundation expects that Ernest Hemingway's Havana home will be brought entirely from Florida to Cuba by 2016.
