STORY: Ernest Hemingway look-alikes dressed in crisp white outfits, red berets and bandanas took part in the 45th annual “Running” of the Bulls on Saturday (July 25), one of the signature events of Key West’s Hemingway Days celebration in Florida.

The procession wound through Old Town Key West, beginning outside Sloppy Joe’s Bar, a favorite of Hemingway's. Participants, many of them past winners and contestants in the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, paraded alongside wooden bulls in tribute to the famous running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.

The event kicked off a day of festivities leading to the final round of the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, where 24 finalists competed for the title of “Papa 2026.” The Hemingway Days festival, marking the 127th anniversary of the author's birth, continues through Sunday with several events honoring the Nobel Prize-winning writer.

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1. AERIAL VIEW OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY LOOK-ALIKES PARADING THE STREETS

2. VARIOUS OF HEMINGWAY LOOK-ALIKES PARADING THE STREETS

3. PEOPLE WATCHING THE HEMINGWAY LOOK-ALIKE PROCESSION / PAN TO FRONT OF PROCESSION WITH LOOK-ALIKES HOLDING UP BANNER FOR THE HEMINGWAY LOOK-ALIKE SOCIETY

4. AERIAL VIEW OF HEMINGWAY LOOK-ALIKES PARADING THE STREETS

5. VIEW OF SLOPPY JOE'S BAR / HEMINGWAY LOOK-ALIKES CHEERING

6. GIRL ON WOODEN BULL SURROUNDED BY HEMINGWAY LOOK-ALIKES

7. HEMINGWAY LOOK-ALIKE IN BOXING GARB AND GLOVES JOKINGLY PUNCHING ANOTHER LOOK-ALIKE

8. WOMEN ON WOODEN BULL SURROUNDED BY HEMINGWAY LOOK-ALIKES AND TAKING PHOTOS

9. CLOSE-UP OF WOODEN BULL

10. SPANISH FLAG WITH A BULL ON IT / PAN TO COUPLE HOLDING THE FLAG