Hemingway | Clip | Hemingway's Home in Cuba, the Finca Vigía
In the spring of 1939, Ernest Hemingway returned to Havana, Cuba where Martha Gellhorn would later join him. Martha rented the Finca Vigía, a 10-acre property outside the city where they could live together, which Hemingway would eventually buy and would become his home for the next two decades.
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(birds chirping) - [Woman] I woke to look out my window at a Ceiba tree, so beautiful that you can't believe it.
And hear the palms rattling in the morning wind, and the sun streaking over the tiled floors and the house itself wide and bare, and clean and empty.
Lying quiet all around me and I am delighted.
- [Narrator] Hemingway was delighted too and would eventually buy the place outright.
The Finca would be his home for the next two decades.
(slow drum beats) - (speaking in foreign language) - [Narrator] People ask you why you live in Cuba and you say, it is because you like it.
It is too complicated to explain about the early morning in the Hills above Havana, where every morning is cool and fresh on the hottest day in summer.
You could tell them that you live in Cuba because you only have to put shoes on when you come into town and that you work as well there in those cool early mornings as you ever have worked anywhere in the world but those are professional secrets.
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