HAVANA, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Cuban government officials and the Hemingway House Foundation in Idaho have reached an agreement for an exchange of the author's documents and mementoes.
The material relates to the life and career of author Ernest Hemingway, who spent the last 20 years of his life at his home on the outskirts of Havana named Finca Vigia.
Only last year, the Castro government opened Finca Vigia to restorers as part of a project financed by the United States. Eventually it will be open to scholars and the public as a memorial to the writer, who committed suicide in Ketchum, Idaho, in 1961, leaving a large repository of literary papers and correspondence in the Cuba house.
Martin Peterson, co-president of the Hemingway foundation, said he sealed the agreement by presenting Cuban officials with a photograph of the author on a hunting trip in Idaho on which he shot two antelopes whose heads are mounted on a wall in the Finca Vigia living room.
