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Sep 25, 2008 7:47 pm US/Eastern

Purrfect Ending To Hemingway Cats Battle

KEY WEST (CBS4) ― The famed six-toed cats at Ernest Hemingway's Key West home have proven once again that cats do have nine lives because these famous cats aren't going anywhere.

The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum has an agreement with the federal government that will allow it to keep the 50 cats and let them roam the grounds as present and past felines have done for more than 70 years.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the museum an animal exhibition license after a five-year fight.

The agency had threatened to fine the museum $200 per day per cat, saying the museum didn't have the proper permit and didn't meet federal animal exhibition standards.

The cats, descended from a cat named "Snowball" given to the novelist in 1935. They freely wander the grounds of the Spanish colonial house, one of the most popular visitor attractions in the Florida Keys. Hemingway wrote "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "To Have and Have Not" while living at the home.

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