{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Whiskers Sanctuary: Sleep Stories for Cat Lovers","title":"Sleep Story: Hemingway and the Six-Toed Cats: The House the Cats Inherited","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":7381,"description":"Tonight’s story is inspired by the true story of Ernest Hemingway, his famous six-toed cats, and the extraordinary colony of cats that still calls his Key West home their own.\nIt begins in the 1930s, when a sea captain gives Hemingway a white polydactyl kitten—a cat born with extra toes and the broad, mitten-like paws sailors had considered lucky for generations.\nHer name was Snow White.\nSoon, one cat led to another.\nCats wandered through Hemingway’s writing room, stretched across the warm stone floors, explored the tropical gardens, and settled wherever they pleased while Hemingway worked nearby.\nDecades passed. Hemingway left Key West. His home eventually became a museum.\nBut the cats stayed.\nToday, around fifty cats still roam the gardens and verandas of the Hemingway Home, many carrying the famous polydactyl trait that has become inseparable from the story of the house.\nThe palm fronds move gently.\nThe fountain continues.\nAnd at Hemingway’s house… the cats remain.\nThis is a slow, ambient bedtime story designed to help you unwind, quiet your mind, and gently fall asleep. Inspired by true events, it’s a peaceful nighttime story about tropical evenings, literary history, extraordinary cats, and the small acts of care that sometimes continue long after we’re gone.\nSo settle in…\nand spend a warm evening with the cats of Key West.\n—\nIf you enjoy this episode, you can find more sleep stories at The Whiskers Sanctuary.\nPerfect for sleep, relaxation, true cat stories, literary history, cat lovers, or quiet nighttime listening.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/vtbw9SMD1OyhmyyVnMKMsNwp-F-ez5msZs4K3sXKXyo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hOWVl/MWJkYzM2NThmMWJm/OTRkYzI2MGY4NmMw/NTczMS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}