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Key West, Florida. This grey guy was working trash detail at the Hemingway House Museum, 907 Whitehead Street. A talkative chap, too - when I said hello, he answered back!

The house was built in 1851 by Asa Tift, a marine architect and salvage wrecker.
Ernest Hemingway purchased the house in 1931 and lived here with his second wife, Paulene until 1939. The house still contains the Spanish antique furniture that he and his family used.

The 57 kitties that were there when I visited roaming freely about the grounds are descendants of the cats he kept while he lived in the house, including many polydactyls like the one Hemingway loved, a a six-toed white kitten given to him by a sea captain that he named named Snow White. (Hemingway named all his cats after famous people or movie characters, and the tradition continues today at the museum)

Cats normally have five front toes and four back toes. Sailors favored polydactyl cats, believing they were good luck. Their extra toes enhanced their abilities as mousers and provided better balance on rough seas. They are often called "mitten cats."

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Key West, Florida. This grey guy was working trash detail at the Hemingway House Museum, 907 Whitehead Street. A talkative chap, too - when I said hello, he answered back!

The house was built in 1851 by Asa Tift, a marine architect and salvage wrecker.
Ernest Hemingway purchased the house in 1931 and lived here with his second wife, Paulene until 1939. The house still contains the Spanish antique furniture that he and his family used.

The 57 kitties that were there when I visited roaming freely about the grounds are descendants of the cats he kept while he lived in the house, including many polydactyls like the one Hemingway loved, a a six-toed white kitten given to him by a sea captain that he named named Snow White. (Hemingway named all his cats after famous people or movie characters, and the tradition continues today at the museum)

Cats normally have five front toes and four back toes. Sailors favored polydactyl cats, believing they were good luck. Their extra toes enhanced their abilities as mousers and provided better balance on rough seas. They are often called "mitten cats."

My Gallery deviantart.com/yesterdays-pape…