They had previously lived on Simonton Street, where Hemingway wrote “A Farewell to Arms” in 1929. While living in Key West, thanks to a nearby hardware store owner, Ernest became interested in deep-sea fishing. While sea fishing, he met Joe Russell, who became the prototype of Freddie from the novel “To Have and Have Not.” After Hemingway’s death, the manuscript of this novel was found in the well-known Sloppy Joe’s in Key West.
