Jack Hemingway, outdoorsman and son of author, dies at 76

NEW YORK (AP) -- Jack Hemingway, an Idaho outdoorsman, writer and son of author Ernest Hemingway, has died. He was 76.

Members of Hemingway's family decided Friday to remove him from life support systems at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center. Complications arose from a heart operation while visiting the city.

He is the father of actress Mariel Hemingway, actress-model Margaux, who died of a drug overdose in 1996, and an older daughter, Muffet.

His early life was recounted in his father's "A Moveable Feast."

The boy, nicknamed "Bumby," spent his toddler years in Parisian cafes frequented by writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gertrude Stein and her partner, Alice B. Toklas, were his godparents and frequently baby-sat him.

As a teen-ager, he and his father bonded by hunting, fishing and boxing in Pamplona, Spain; Havana, and Key West, Florida. The elder Hemingway committed suicide in 1961.

Hemingway recalled their relationship in his 1986 memoir, "The Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life With and Without Papa." He also wrote at least three other books on fishing and penned the afterword for "Hemingway on Fishing," a recently released compilation of his father's writings about the sport.

He was a decorated World War II veteran who spent six months in a German prisoner of war camp.

A longtime Idaho resident, he served as a member of the state's fish and game commission in the 1970s.

He spent part of his recent years, along with his two half brothers, overseeing licensing agreements of products bearing the Ernest Hemingway name. They include sports clothes and a collection of furniture, clocks and other accessories.

A memorial for Hemingway will take place in New York on Dec. 9 and burial will be in the Sun Valley, Idaho, area.

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