and Game Commission. Idaho's trout stocks increased as a result of Hemingway's success in getting the state to adopt a catch and release fishing law. His work with The Nature Conservancy was instrumental in preserving Silver Creek near Sun Valley, Idaho as one of Idaho's premier trout streams. Writer Jack Hemingway assisted his father's fourth wife and widow, Mary Welsh Hemingway, with final editing before publication of A Moveable Feast (1964), his father's memoir of life in 1920s Paris, which was published three years after Ernest Hemingway's death. Jack Hemingway also published an autobiography, Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life With and Without Papa, in 1986. A second autobiographical work, A Life Worth Living: The Adventures of a Passionate Sportsman, was released posthumously in 2002. Death and honors Jack Hemingway died on December 1, 2000, at age 77 from complications following heart surgery in New York City. He had previously suffered a heart attack at around age 44. In 2001, the state of Idaho designated an annual "Jack Hemingway Conservation Day" in his honor. He is buried in Idaho at the Ketchum Cemetery, next to his wife Puck, daughter Margaux, father Ernest, step-mother Mary and half-brother Gregory. Writings Hemingway, Jack (1986). Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life With and Without Papa. Dallas: Taylor Pub. Co. Hemingway, Jack (2002). A Life Worth Living: The Adventures of a Passionate Sportsman. Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press. Notes References Sources Oliver, Charles M. (1999). Ernest Hemingway A to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Work. New York: Checkmark Publishing. External links "Obituary: Jack Hemingway" from The Guardian Last Interview, at sunvalleyguide.com. American conservationists American fishers Sportspeople from Idaho Writers from Idaho Canadian people of American descent Canadian people of English descent Canadian emigrants to the United States Canadian expatriates in Austria Canadian expatriates in France American prisoners of war in World War II Sportspeople from Toronto Writers from Toronto Burials in Idaho Canadian autobiographers Canadian book editors Hemingway family 1923 births 2000 deaths People from Ketchum, Idaho United States Army personnel of World War II United States Army officers World War II prisoners of war held by Germany People of the Office of Strategic Services American military police officers Storm King School alumni