MADRID, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Spanish writer and journalist Jose Luis Castillo-Puche Moreno, a good friend of Ernest Hemingway, has died in Madrid of pneumonia. He was 84.
Castillo-Puche, who twice won Spain's National Prize for Literature, entered a Madrid clinic Jan. 17 suffering from pneumonia and died Monday, the EFE agency reported.
His career was greatly influenced by his friendship with Hemingway, to whom he dedicated the books, "Hemingway Between Life and Death" and "Hemingway in Spain."
In addition, Castillo-Puche entered the film world, writing the screenplay for a movie about the 1954 Nobel laureate and a television series titled "Hemingway, Festa e Morte."
A portrait of the writer by his artist friend, Ricolopez on his Web site ricolopez.com features a memorial to Castillo-Puche, strongly resembling Hemingway, with the trademark gray moustache and beard.
