From 3-27-13 Huffington Post about cat's $3,000 trip home from the war zone and how Pus helped a soldier cope:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/jesse-knott-cat-koshka_n_2956859.html?utm_hp_ref=good-news
Anne Frank cat had a cat with white socks named Boche
Some Winston Churchill cats were named Nelson, Margate, and Jock ... a chair was available for Nelson next to Churchill in the Cabinet room
The prophet Mohammed's cat was Muezza, and it's said he cut his robe rather than disturb a sleeping cat
Dr. Samuel Johnson personally went to the market to buy oysters for his cat, Hodge, in part so the staff wouldn't resent Hodge
During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln rescued three stray kittens found while visiting General Grant's camp;
Charles Lindbergh would have taken his cat Patsy on his famous trip across the Atlantic but (he said) he didn't want to risk her life.
Charles Dickens wrote, "What greater gift than the love of a cat?" To get attention Dickens' cat extinguished candles using her paw.
Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain named his cats Buffalo Bill, Beelzebub, Blatherskite and Apollinaris ...
Mark Twain lived next to Harriet Beecher Stowe whose two cats sometimes wrote letters to Twain's cats, and Twain's cats "wrote" letters back
When something is hilarious the Irish say it's "funny enough to make the cat laugh."
An Italian proverb says, "Happy is the home with at least one cat."
A Russian proverb says, "What need is there for sculpture in a house that has a cat?"
Issac Newton purportedly invented the first cat flap door to facilitate his beloved cat's comings and goings
T.S. Eliot said, "A cat is always on the wrong side of every door." If he's out, he'd rather be in, and if he's in he'd rather be about."
My dog thinks he's a person; my cat thinks she's a god; dogs come when called, cats take a message and get back to you; you'll never see 20 cats pulling a sled; and one way or another we're all waiting for the sound of the can opener.