As Ernest Hemingway’s birthday rolls around each July, Florida bars from Key West to Miami Beach shake mojitos in tribute to the Nobel Prize-winning author. But Hemingway scholars say one of the writer’s most enduring cocktail legends is probably just that — a legend.
“His connection to the mojito is probably more myth than reality,” said Mark Ott, a Hemingway scholar who has edited the “Teaching Hemingway” book series and served as a consulting editor on Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s “Hemingway” documentary. “There’s not much of a record of him drinking mojitos.”…