After spending most of his 20s in Paris, Hemingway embraced the vastly different island lifestyle, according to Cori Convertito, a curator at Key West Museum of Art & History at the Custom House.

Curator Cori Convertito shows off Ernest Hemingway's World War I ambulance driver uniform and other belongings at Key West Museum of Art & History at the Custom House in Key West, Florida ...

After spending most of his 20s in Paris, Hemingway embraced the vastly different island lifestyle, according to Cori Convertito, a curator at Key West Museum of Art & History at the Custom House.