the protection of the Ambos Mundos Hotel kept him clear from the street fighting in Cuba. Hemingway was elated when Machado fled Cuba and when Dr. Carlo Manuel de Ce’spedes became the new president. (Baker, 1969, P. 245)Cuba’s climate and atmosphere inspired Hemingway’s literal senses, compelling him to write For Whom the Bell Tolls. This Island was also the ideal spot for having an affair with Martha Gellhorn, who later became his wife. Alcohol played a major role in Hemingway’s life. “He explained the nights of drinking as a necessary counter force to the daily bouts of writing which left him whipped, wrung out, and empty as a used as a rag.” (P.345, 346) For convenience, Martha Gellhorn purchased a home in Cuba on an old estate called Finca Vigi’a, in the village of San Fancisco de Paula, fifteen miles from Havana (P. 346). Martha and Ernest were eventually married after his divorce was final from Pauline in 1940. The couple made close friends with Robert and Jane Joyce and other associates who would later become liaisons on an espionage adventure during World War II. Ernest Hemingway, together with Robert Joyce and Ellis Briggs, would work together to form a counterintelligence organization in Havana to spy on “Nazi sympathizers” (Meyers, 1985, P. 367). Hemingway enjoyed his active role in the war without leaving his beloved Cuba. “His motives were clear enough: patriotism, pleasure in secret planning, and a love for commanding “inside” operations, especially if they involved firearms and possible personal danger” (Baker, 1968, P. 372). Hemingway equipped the his boat, Pilar to patrol the north coast looking for German submarines and used his home, the Finca as an intermediary for the organization know as the Crook Factory. (p. 373) Even though Ernest Hemingway took these war games as serious business, there is doubt whether the FBI would agree. ...
