Georges DeKeerle via Getty Images A cat rests on a table in the garden of author Ernest Hemingway's onetime home.

Among the residents of Key West, Florida, who opted to stay put and brave the 130 mph winds that ravaged the state this weekend were 54 six- and seven-toed cats that call Ernest Hemingway’s former limestone abode home. Despite officials’ calls for a full evacuation of the region, the cats ― along with Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum manager Jacque Sands and curator Dave Gonzales ― opted to ride out Hurricane Irma’s wrath within the comforts of the institute’s 18-inch walls. And it seems they made the right decision. This week, the humans temporarily residing in the Hemingway Home reported to multiple outlets that they and the cats had survived the extreme weather that came their way. The museum itself lost access to water and the internet and is relying on three generators to power appliances like the refrigerator, Gonzales told NBC.

WATCH: Curator: Hemingway House in the Keys is intact -- and the 54 six-toed cats are safe -- after Hurricane #Irma. https://t.co/MwjXQqHx9Z — NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) September 11, 2017

“The cats are accustomed to our voices and our care,” he explained of their desire to hunker down rather than truck the cats out of harm’s way. “We love them, they love us. We all hung out last night together.” A total of 10 employees stayed at the house with the cats, many of whom are feline descendants of the classic author’s famously polydactyl pet. (That’s a ratio of five cats to one human, Gonzales noted to NBC.) Ahead of the storm, some were worried about the fate of Hemingway’s house and those (cats) who live there. “Get in the car with the cats and take off,” Mariel Hemingway, granddaughter of the Farewell to Arms writer, advised.

KAREN BLEIER via Getty Images A cat sleeps on a bed on Feb. 18, 2013, at the Key West home where author Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote for a decade.