Havana. Ernest Hemingway, an important world writer, particularly loved in Cuba – where he lived for several decades – returned to the island this weekend.
Almost twenty doubles of the narrator arrived in Havana to participate in a two-day cultural tour of the most representative places in Hemingway’s history.
Dressed in shorts, high socks, sandals and colorful tropical shirts, as well as a thick white beard, the 18 Americans were received with applause.
Residents and tourists saw them with amazement on Saturday afternoon at the El Floridita bar in Old Havana, where Hemingway used to go to have one or more daiquiris in the middle of the last century.
Before, the group visited the Vigía farm, where they sponsored a baseball game with local children, a tradition that the writer began when he moved to that residence located on the outskirts of Havana, and where he lived until 1960. Hemingway started this in 1939 for his son Gregory, who was called Gigi. He went out around the neighborhood and got the kids excited to play baseball with his son, and the tradition continued.
commented one of the visitors, who identified himself as papa Joe Maxy, who has been a member of the Hemingway Look-Alike Society since 2019.
The group also brings medicine, gifts and toys for the young people of the municipality of San Francisco de Paula, where the Vigía farm is located.
The delegation is part of the society that organizes trips like this one every year with members from different parts of the United States, but mostly residents of Florida, the visitors indicated.