Thanks to an agreement between United States representative James McGovern and the Cuban authorities, copies of writings by Ernest Hemingway have found their way to the J.F. Kennedy Library. The items include several proofs and items of personal correspondence, some of which have not been accessible to Hemingway scholars to date.

It is well known that Hemingway spent a great deal of his life in Cuba, leaving behind an extensive collection of documents in his house in Fica Viaga after his death in 1961.