Ernest Hemingway still has a lot of six-toed cats on his Key West property.

Six-toed cats were considered good luck amongst fishermen at the turn of the last century, and those littlle felines became all the rage in port towns.

As Yahoo reports, by the time Ernest Hemingway moved to Key West, FL, in 1928, its own port town was overrun by a slew of six-toed cats--and Hemingway, never one to avoid jumping on a bandwagon, wanted his own six-toed cat. 

The cat did come, from the brood of a sea captain named Stanley Dexter whose feline, Snow White, had a litter of kittens. That litter offered Hemingway his first six-toed cat, Snowball. Within years, Snow White and her progeny left 50 different six-toed cats on the Hemingway property.

Today, the extra-digit cats still exist at Hemingway's former estate, roaming inside and out, and generally avoiding the rules. As this one photo from the Hemingway House Shows:

Photos: Hemingway House, Jo Piazza, via Yahoo