Sloppy Joe's Bar owes its address to a stingy landlord and a barful of obliging friends. When Key West's most notorious watering hole faced a rent increase, owner Joe Russell told his regulars that whoever helped him move would drink free all night. They carried the entire bar, fixtures and all, a block down Duval Street before dawn.

The name came from a Havana bar Russell and Ernest Hemingway frequented, one with a permanently wet floor from melted ice. Hemingway suggested it, replacing the less appealing "Blind Pig."

Russell was no ordinary barkeep. A former rum runner who knew the waters to Havana by heart, he became Hemingway's fishing captain and inspired Freddy's Bar in To Have and Have Not.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours use Sloppy Joe's to trace Hemingway's Key West circle, following the rum runners and barroom regulars who found their way, thinly disguised, into his fiction.

Sloppy Joe's Bar, Hemingway's old Key West haunt, features on VoiceMap's audio tours of his rum-running friends and fictional characters.