 Hemingway bought the property with some of the first royalties from the book, which was published in 1940.After Hemingway and Gellhorn divorced in 1945, Hemingway kept "Finca Vigia" and lived there during the winters with Mary Welsh Hemingway, his last wife.At the "finca", Hemingway also wrote "The Old Man and the Sea" (1951) about a fisherman who lived in the nearby town of Cojimar and worked the waters off Havana.