Wall Street Journal
Finn-Olaf Jones, December 5, 2013
Of all the places Hemingway lived, none had such a hold on the author as his home outside Havana—now being restored through an unlikely alliance. Here, a guided tour of the Cuban haunts that shaped a literary legend.
TWO BOYS IN FADED red shorts are darting around an older man fishing with a homemade bamboo pole, all balanced atop the sea-drenched concrete wall of Havana’s Malecón—a coastal drive connecting a strip of weathered Beaux Arts buildings to the narrow streets of Old Havana, where paint peels off gorgeously tattered neo-baroque façades and canopies of laundry shade women selling fruit, old shoes or themselves. My cabbie drives inland, past the end of a strangely empty harbor, until smoky tropical scents replace the sea air and we arrive at the shack-lined main village of San Francisco de Paula, nine miles south of…