Whether it's a mess of bluegill hooked with a cane pole, a rare trout snagged with a fly or a sailfish suitable for ... fish caught by day-trippers aboard boats over the past 50 years.

For Hemingway, Cuba was a place to relax (the waters off Cojimar, where he docked his fishing boat, the Pilar) and a place to write. Robert Wallis The living room (above) at Finca Vigía is ...