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Key West, Florida.  The house was built in 1851 by Asa Tift, a marine architect and salvage wrecker, and became Ernest Hemingway's home in 1931. The house still contains the furniture that he and his family used. The cats about the home and grounds are descendants of the cats he kept while he lived in the house, including many extra-toed (polydactyls), like the one Papa Hemingway loved.

Pauline had the Art Deco tile floor installed in the bathroom. The ceiling of the bathroom is very low. There is a rain cistern on the roof to provide indoor plumbing; the house was the first and one of the very few in town to have had running water at the time.
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