By Rachael
Rettner, Senior Writer | September 11, 2017 06:01pm ET
More than
four dozen cats that live at Ernest Hemingway's historic home in Key West,
Florida, survived Hurricane Irma unharmed.
All 54
cats, and the 10 people who stayed with them during the storm, are safe, David
Gonzales, a curator at the house, told MSNBC on
Sunday (Sept. 10). Gonzales and his colleagues took the cats inside
the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum, which has 18-inch-thick limestone
walls, according to the New York Times.
The
"Hemingway
cats"
are famous not only for occupying the historic home and lounging on its
grounds, but also for having six toes. (Cats usually have five front toes and
four back toes, according to the Museum.) The extra digit is an inherited
trait, resulting from the "polydactyl gene." All of the cats carry
this gene, but only about half display the trait, the Museum said. Many of the
cats are decedents of Hemingway's cat called Snow White, which also had six
toes.
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