Ernest Hemingway was a LOYAL New Dealer and passionate FDR supporter, who totally rejected his upbringing in a prosperous family in suburban Oak Park, Illinois, of which he supposedly said was a place of “broad lawns and narrow minds.” Rebelling early on against his conservative, Christian upbringing, young Ernest became a libertine and very much a participant of the 1920’s, including a more than passing flirtation with the “Red measles” of the time.
Of course he welcomed Castro.
He was also seriously mentally ill. It really runs in that family - from his father to his grandchildren.