Ka cika wannan magana: 'Yar jarida kuma marubuciya Martha Gellhorn, wadda ya haɗu da ita shekara guda da ta shige a Key West, ta bi Hemingway zuwa Spain. Kamar Hadley, Martha dan asalin St. Louis ne, kuma kamar Pauline, ta yi aiki don "Vogue" a Paris. Game da Martha, Kert ya yi bayani, "ba ta kula da shi yadda wasu mata suke yi ba". A watan Yulin 1937 ya halarci Babban Taron Marubuta na Duniya na Biyu, wanda manufarsa ita ce tattauna halin masu ilimi game da yaƙin, wanda aka gudanar a Valencia, Barcelona da Madrid kuma marubuta da yawa sun halarta ciki har da André Malraux, Stephen Spender da Pablo Neruda. A ƙarshen 1937, yayin da yake Madrid tare da Martha, Hemingway ya rubuta wasan kwaikwayonsa kawai, "The Fifth Column", kamar yadda
Sojojin Franco suna kai wa birnin hare-hare. Ya koma Key West na 'yan watanni, sa'an nan kuma ya koma Spain sau biyu a 1938, inda ya kasance a yakin Ebro, na karshe na jamhuriya, kuma yana cikin' yan jarida na Birtaniya da na Amurka wadanda suka kasance daga cikin na karshe su bar yakin yayin da suka haye kogin.