Someone stole the freaking thing in 2000............the same year Art of War was released.....since u like my memory...........

Gift From Picasso Taken From Hemingway Museum

November 16, 2000

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Maybe it was the thought that counted.
A ceramic cat said to be a gift from Pablo Picasso to Ernest Hemingway has vanished from the Hemingway House Museum in Key West, Fla., although the statue may have little more than sentimental value.

The museum's general manager said the 14-inch cat disappeared Tuesday, about 10 minutes after a tour guide pointed it out to sightseers.
During a visit in 1972, Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, remarked that the varicolored cat was a 1920s-era gift from Picasso.
Then in a state of disrepair, the cat was pieced back together and displayed in a glass case in an upstairs bedroom, a highlight on the Hemingway House tour ever since.
The museum posted a $10,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the culprit.