Give a stream of consciousness and then the final answer. "Cat in the Rain" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), first published by Boni & Liveright in 1925 in the short story collection In Our Time. The story is about an American man and wife on vacation in Italy. Critical attention focuses chiefly on its autobiographical elements and on Hemingway's "theory of omission" (iceberg theory).

Answer this question: where does cat in the rain take place?
This is the relevant information: The story is about an American man and wife on vacation in Italy.
So, the final answer is Italy.