Meet The Man Who Just Won An Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — A white-bearded Florida male has won a “Papa” Hemingway Look-Alike Contest on his 15th attempt. 

Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau around AP

 Retired atmosphere trade controller Charlie Boice of Palm Beach Gardens prevailed Saturday night during Sloppy Joe’s Bar, a hangout of Ernest Hemingway during his Key West residency in a 1930s.

 

A picture of Ernest Hemingway jolt hands with Fidel Castro.ASSOCIATED PRESS

 A row of former competition winners chose Boice, 56, who pronounced he shares Hemingway’s passion for marlin fishing.

Celebrity prepare Paula Deen’s husband, Michael Groover of Savannah, Georgia, finished in a tip five.

The competition captivated 122 entrants. It’s a prominence of a annual Hemingway Days festival honoring a author’s literary legacy.

During his Key West years, Hemingway wrote a novel “To Have and Have Not.”

 

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