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| Brennen with her cat Charlie |
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Author's Note
Hemingway's Cats explores the life of Ernest Hemingway, the women he loved, and the cats and dogs he befriended throughout his life. His animals often helped him to cope with his failing relationships, deep-seated loneliness, and life-threatening diseases.
As a cat aficionado, I was intrigued by Hemingway's deep devotion to the family pets. The more I researched this complex writer's life and his close association to animals, the more I came to understand Hemingway the man, the lover, the husband, the father, the hunter, the fisherman, the writer, as well as the devoted master of many cats and dogs. I discovered a kinder, gentler man known only to family and close friends, quite different from the macho character he himself helped to create - a man part fact, part fiction.
- Carlene Fredericka Brennen
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