To their friends, the Hemingways were an ideal couple, as devoted to each other as they were to Ernest’s art. The American humorist and screenwriter Donald Ogden Stewart thought the Hemingway marriage so “perfect” it was almost “holy.” Ernest and Hadley seemed to grow more in love all the time. Stella Bowen recalled how they “would brighten up to each other” in a room full of people and “how little their lack of money

