Fernando Huarte, in his book "Hemingway, cien años y una huella" states this year during Sanfermin fiestas, Hemingway was the star attraction. Everyone wanted to be seen with him, to have their photos taken with him and everyone wanted his autograph.
He came to Pamplona with a large party from Madrid, among them the bullfighter Antonio Ordonez, Dr. Vernon Lord, TV writer Aarón Hotchner, the young Irish journalist, Valerie Danby-Smith and the photographer Julio Oubiña. This photographer did a special photographic report on the banks of the reservoir at Yesa, for the prestigious Life magazine.