وعلى الرغم من النتيجة له أن همنغواي" قد مات من الجرح في الرأس "، وقيلت القصة إلى الصحافة ان كان ذلك الموت "مصادفة".
Despite his finding that Hemingway "had died of a self-inflicted wound to the head", the story told to the press was that the death had been "accidental".