What was the name of Hemingway's estate in Cuba?

What was the name of Hemingway’s estate in Cuba? The answer is “Finca Vigía.”

Finca Vigía, meaning “Lookout Farm,” was Ernest Hemingway’s home near San Francisco de Paula, about 8 miles southeast of Havana. The house was built in 1886 by Catalan architect Miguel Pascual y Baguer on a hill that had once held a Spanish Army surveillance post. That elevated location explains the estate’s name.

Hemingway rented the property in 1939 and bought it in December 1940 for $12,500 after the success of For Whom the Bell Tolls. He lived there until leaving Cuba permanently on July 25, 1960. During his years at the finca, he wrote much of For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea.

After Hemingway’s death, the Cuban government preserved the house and its contents as a museum. Finca Vigía is often confused with El Floridita, the Havana bar associated with Hemingway, or with his Key West home. The estate also contains the preserved fishing boat Pilar.