After World War One ended, Hemingway moved to Cuba and knew old fisherman Gregorio Fuentes. In the year of 1930, Hemingway's ship sank in the storm, Fuentes saved him. Hereinafter, Gregorio Fuentes has developed deep friendship with Hemingway and they often go fishing together. In the year of 1936, Fuentes caught a fat fish when shipping far out to sea, but because the fish was too big. He dragged it for long time in sea, finally got attacked by the shark and came back with only with a set of skeletons. The old Man and the Sea is based on this story, the novel was published in 1952 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and Nobel Prize in 1954, Hemingway himself thought it "e;his best work piece of ability in life"e;.
