Ernest "Ernesto" Hemingway lived part time, mostly winters, in Cuba between about 1940 and 1960. He became a real celebrity to the Cuban people, and is the subject of most tours today. He acquired his yacht Pilar in 1934, and moved it to Cuba late that decade. He stayed on manty occasions at the Hotel Ambos Mundos, and frequented La Bodeguita for mohitos and La Floridita Bar for daquiris, reportedly drinking up to ten per visit. in fact he is commemorated at the bar with a life size bronze statue sitting at one end of the bar. He lived for many years at "Fince Vigia", a 15 acre site about ten miles outside Havana. He kept Pilar at Cojimar, a small fishing village outside Havana. He wrote "Old Man and the Sea" in Cuba.