Photo: Ernest Hemingway and Carlos Gutierrez aboard Hemingway’s boat Pilar, 1934 (detail). Photograph in the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
In 1934, 22-year-old aspiring writer Arnold Samuelson hopped a ride on top of a coal car on a freight train bound from Minnesota to Key West. His mission: to meet Ernest Hemingway.…
