Patrick Hemingway, Ernest’s Devoted Second Son, Is Dead at 97 NYT | Top Stories By: Robert D. McFadden 4 September 2025 at 06:01 Inspired by his parents’ travels, he spent much of his life in Africa and helped complete his father’s safari memoir. He also published a volume of father-son letters. © Bettmann, via Getty ImagesPatrick Hemingway with his father, Ernest Hemingway, near Sun Valley in Idaho in 1945 after Patrick had shot a buck in the nearby hills.