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KEY WEST, Fla. — The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum announced Thursday that it had reached an agreement with the federal government over its famed six-toed cats that lets 50 or so cats continue roaming the grounds, ending a five-year battle that could have resulted in them being removed or caged.
The felines descend from a cat named “Snowball” given to the novelist in 1935 and freely wander the grounds.
The home is where the Nobel Prize-winning author wrote “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “To Have and Have Not.”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture had threatened to fine the museum $200 per day per cat — about $10,000 — saying it didn’t have the proper animal exhibition license and because the cats were not confined.
