Historical Inaccuracies...

In the movie, Hemingway refers to the lakeside cabin owned by his father in upper Michigan as "Walloon Lake." In actuality, it was "Bear Lake."

Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky only knew each other for five months -- most of which Hemingway spent as a bedridden patient, first from the machinegun wounds he sustained on the Austro-Italian front on July 8, 1918 at Fossalta di Piave, and a second time from a subsequent bout of nosocomial jaundice he contracted three months later which sent him back to the hospital in Milan after a brief return to the front in October, for yet another month of recuperation. In January of 1919, Hemingway left the hospital in Milan, but kept up the correspondence with her. Throughout the time he was in her care, although they did go on one outing, their relationship by all accounts was purely platonic, which is contrary to what was portrayed in the film.

Hemingway and von Kurowsky's last correspondence was after Hemingway wrote Kurowsky in September of 1920 to inform her of his marriage to Elizabeth Hadley Richardson.