Legend has it that the Hemingway family purchased the pool worth $20,000 in the 1930s (the equivalent of $330,000 in 2013). The price of the pool was so high that Hemingway had to spend all his money. He wrote “Death in the Afternoon,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” while in Key West.
