All 59 cats on Ernest Hemingway's Florida home safe after Hurricane Ian

The home of Ernest Hemingway, including the 59 cats that reside on the property, is in good shape after Hurricane Ian.

Alexa Morgan, a museum representative, shared with People magazine that all is well at the estate. Hemingway's home received minor damage in the storm and all 59 cats on the property are safe.

Morgan told the outlet that the staff is now prioritizing cleaning the tree and leaf debris from the outside of the Florida Keys home. The museum was closed on Wednesday but reopened on Thursday.

She shared that the cats were in a secure area of the estate and a few staff stayed on the property to feed the animals during the storm.

Most of the famous cats on Hemingway's property have a unique feature: many of them have six toes.

The museum's website says that half of the cats have the physical polydactyl six toes trait, but they all carry the polydactyl gene in their DNA, meaning that the ones with 4 and 5 toes can still mother or father six-toed kittens.

The cat phenomenon started with Hemingway's personal cat Snow White, who was gifted to him from a ship captain. Some of the cats that live on the museum grounds are descendants of that original cat, according to the website.

Prior to the storm, Hemingway's granddaughter Mariel shared with the Daily Mail that she feared her grandfather's estate would be destroyed in the storm.

If any of his houses were destroyed, the pain and sorrow would be palpable, she told the outlet, referring to Hemingway's properties in Havana, Cuba and Ketchum, Idaho. It would be upsetting if any of his houses were affected. The famous author's home in Florida was built in 1851. Hemingway received the home, which is located at 907 Whitehead St., as a wedding gift from the uncle of Pauline, his second wife. He lived there from 1931 to 1939.

Hemingway wrote some of his most famous works while he was living in the Key West house, including A Farewell to Arms and Death in the Afternoon. In addition to being a place where Hemingway worked and spent several years of his life, the Key West home was used as a shooting location in the 1989 James Bond movie License to Kill. He and Pauline moved out of the house after he and Pauline divorced. It was later turned into a museum that attracts many visitors.