Since childhood, wherever he lived and worked, he was accompanied by cats, with whom he shared a particularly intimate bond. Hemingway was convinced that cats actively supported him in his work. The writer claimed, “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” In Paris, where he lived with Hadley Richardson, he was accompanied by a Persian cat named Feather Puss, later described in the book “A Moveable Feast,” published in 1964, as a caring guardian of their little son John “Bumby.”
