A few weeks before his death, Ernest Hemingway was being treated at St. Mary's Hospital in Minnesota, where he met Sister Immaculata. He gave her a copy of "The Old Man and the Sea" with a dedication: "This book, I hope to write another as good for her when the joy of writing returns, which it does," Hemingway wrote on June 16, 1961.
The Franciscan Sisters of Rochester have now donated the book to the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm. It was transported there by Hemingway connoisseur Curtis DeBerg.
The book will be part of the Nobel Prize Museum's collection.
