I think he was a closet case.
Hmmmm. I doubt it. Maybe a mama’s boy, though.
Brendan Gill wrote in “Here at the New Yorker” that he once asked Hemingway whether the problematic depiction of women in his novels might indicate that he was a repressed homosexual himself (asked while well out of range of Papa’s fists).
Hemingway merely smiled, put his arm around his fourth wife and replied, “Well, let’s just say life would have been a lot simpler if I had been”.