For the annual "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, previous Look-Alike winners and Hemingway family members choose the winners among Hemingway wannabees

KEY WEST, Florida (CNN) -- The six-toed cats and a host of stocky bearded men will be on hand July 17-26 as Key West celebrates one of its most famous residents, writer Ernest Hemingway, with its 18th annual Hemingway Days Festival.

"Papa" Hemingway lived in a Spanish colonial home on Whitehead Street in the United States' southernmost town during the 1930s, when he wrote such standard Hemingway fare as "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "To Have and Have Not" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro."

At this year's celebration: the annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, for the first time including a Web site preliminary round (at http://www.fla-keys.com -- follow the links to the contest to enter). The Web site winner gets airfare to Key West and accommodations to compete in the final round at Sloppy Joe's Bar on July 25. (Entries must be received by July 15.)

The cats will be almost omnipresent (it's said many of the six-toed cats are descended from Hemingway's own), but so will other echoes of the writer. Past look-alike winners will lead tours of the town, and there'll be a writer's workshop, a storytelling competition, Key West's own tongue-in-cheek version of the Running of the Bulls staged by Hemingway look-alikes, a sailing regatta, fishing seminar, golf tournament and arm wrestling championship. And that's just the beginning.

Several events are planned for the Hemingway home, including announcement of the winners of this year's Lorian Hemingway Short Story Contest on July 26.