Havana, Aug 4 (EFE) American writer Ernest Hemingway did not leave Cuba over his frustration with the government of Fidel Castro but was instead forced by the US government to abandon the island, a newspaper has reported.

Ada Rosa Alfonso, the director of the Hemingway Museum in Havana, told official Cuban newspaper Juventud Rebelde that then-US Ambassador to Cuba Philip Wilson Bonsal made the 1954 Nobel Literature laureate to leave the island.

The author of 'The Old Man and the Sea' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' abandoned Cuba suddenly on July 25, 1960, leaving many personal belongings at Finca Vigia, located some 20 km from Havana and at his home on the island from 1939 to 1961.

Unfinished manuscripts were among the items left behind by the writer, the newspaper said.

The majority of Hemingway's biographers concluded that the writer left the island because he was uncomfortable with the way the government installed by Castro in January 1959 was heading.

On July 2, 1961, nearly a year after leaving Cuba, Hemingway killed himself in Idaho.

'It is a fact that they forced him to leave,' Alonso told the daily.