Kako je bilo, moj život sa Ernestom Hemingvejem

How It Was (1976) is an autobiographical book by Mary Welsh Hemingway, an American journalist and the fourth wife of the writer Ernest Hemingway. In these candid and personal memoirs, the author describes her own life, her journalistic career, her meeting with Hemingway during World War II, and their marriage, which lasted from 1946 until the writer's death in 1961.

The book chronicles their life together in Europe, Cuba, Africa, and the United States, offering vivid accounts of their travels, friendships, literary encounters, and daily life alongside one of the 20th century's most famous writers. Mary Hemingway also reveals a lesser-known, intimate side of her husband's personality: his creative discipline and passion for hunting, fishing, and adventure, as well as his emotional crises, health struggles, and increasingly severe mental health issues.

Particularly poignant are the descriptions of Hemingway's final years, his hospitalizations, and his tragic death. In doing so, the author portrays not only the famous writer but also her own struggle for personal independence, professional identity, and the preservation of a complex marriage.

How It Was is a valuable autobiographical account of Hemingway's private life, the literary milieu of his era, and the experience of a woman who witnessed the final two decades of his life at close quarters.