In a brilliant move, irving has hughes use a faked name with hemmingway, tom garden. So the reader understands that hemmingway liked hughes for who he really was - not because of his fame and fortune. After a while, ernest said, let's go for a swim. I pulled off my skivies and we dove over the side into the gulf,. which was perfectly flat and beautifully blue. That was an extraordinary experience for me, because we were grown men. And it was marvellous. We let our imaginations run a mark. He created a portrait of the billionaire in search of his soul, which was a hell of dampside.