GREGORIO FUENTES: Hemingway’s Captain

F. Daniel Somrack was introduced to Gregorio Fuentes in 1997 at Fuentes’ home in Cojimar, Cuba.  Fuentes was a trusted friend and confidant of American writer Ernest Hemingway. From the 1930s until Hemingway’s death in 1961, Gregorio served as the Captain of Hemingway’s fishing yacht “Pilar.” It’s rumored that Fuentes was also the literary model […]

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