There is no natural phenomenon in the world so closed related to an important figure of the literature like the Gulf Stream, located between the United States and Cuba, incapable of being parted of the Nobel Prize for Literature Ernest Hemingway.

Since the author of "For whom the Bells toll" landed at Havana in 1928 for the first time on the steamship "Orita", the see and its ocean current impressed the young reporter and touched his feelings. In the year 1932 he sailed to the island with Joe Russell, friend and alcohol dealer in the days of the Prohibition in the United States and understood that Cuba was a good place to stay. He confirmed it in 1939, when he definitely bought the farm house Finca Vigía, on the hills of Santa Maria del Rosario (San Francisco de Paula) outside the city. He stayed there since 1940 for more than 20 years, deep emotionally linked to the country and its people.

To him "is difficult to explain the fresh morning breeze, blowing even in the hottest days of summertime on the hills around Havana."(Chronicle "The Big Blue River" in "Holiday", July, 1949). But first and foremost he said: "...the main reason for living in Cuba is the "Big Blue River" covering from three fourths to a mile deep and from 60 to 80 miles wide". That current inspired him to write and to love fishing, what he almost assumed as a profession. He liked to catch pelagic fishes and established with them a decisive and philosophical fight, so far as he was motivated to write "The Old Man and the Sea", a short novel (a short novel or a long story?), that influenced considerably for getting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

Actually, the medal that identifies this award remains in Cuba as a gift from the writer to the fishermen, his best friends. That was very significant. This practice in the Gulf Stream is announced by some articles for the magazine Esquire like "Marlin fishing near El Morro", "The Gulf Stream" and "In the blue waters".

He bought the boat Pilar in 1934 and studied carefully the Gulf Stream of Mexico, a place where you can practice very good fishing. He anchored this boat in Havana Bay and in Cojimar, a fishermen town located in the Eastern side of the Cuban capital city, where the captain of his boat, Gregorio Fuentes, lived more than 100 years since 1938.

The Gulf Stream is a peculiar sea way, that crosses the Strait of Florida, getting 80 kilometers wide and from 600 to one thousand meters deep, according to some specialists. Such was the interest of the writer on that place, his detailed search of the area and its spreading in his work, that the central part of that current was known as Hemingway's Mile, where the best swordfishes are caught. Cuba is therefore an authentic party for fishing, a Cuban party, a colorful party.