On the scene of the novel The Old Man and the Sea, which gave Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, researchers and scholars from Cuba, the United States and other nations evoked the legacy of who was considered a friend of Cuba.

Present on the tour was writer Valerie Hemingway, who from a very young age was the private secretary and confidante of the famous novelist, who lived nearly one third of his life in Cuba.

Cuban researcher Gladys Rodriguez, an honorary member of the Hemingway Society, explained to those present the characteristics of the commemorative bust, which was dedicated to the writer and was cast in bronze with material collected by local fishermen.

The researchers also visited Finca Vigia, a Havana site where the writer lived from 1939 to 1960 and it is a museum that treasures belongings and works preserved in the same state as Hemingway left them.

There, a reproduction of the painting El guitarrista (The Guitarist), by artist Juan Gris, was donated as a courtesy of Argentinean researcher Ricardo Koon.

The book La torre bianca (The White Tower), by Italian author Adriana Ivancich, was presented.

Earlier, participants in the Colloquium had visited other places of great significance such as the Club Nautico Internacional (International Nautical Club), at the Hemingway Marina, where the traditional Marlin Fishing Tournament is held.

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