It grew closer to Hemingway than any other human or animal. Boise walked with him step by step, accompanied him during his writing work, sat on his lap while reading, slept with him, and shared every meal. Once, during the writer’s absence from Finca, the cat had a heart attack and passed away - it experienced Hemingway deeply. He immortalized his relationship with Boise in his book “Islands in the Stream,” published posthumously. For Hemingway, cats were “murmur factories” and “sponges of love.”
