As a "cat person," I know we don't always have the best reputation with non-cat-people. We're sometimes stereotyped as being antisocial or lonely folks, which is most often not the case.
In truth, we are simply people who know that cats are wonderful and honest companions for folks of all personality types, even for some of the more famous names in history.
So many prolific and intelligent persons have fallen in love with felines in their time, which really makes a lot of sense. The more and more research that is done on cats, the more scientists are finding out about how incredibly smart, understanding, and complicated these furry creatures really are as well!
These 10 famous faces throughout history were cat people who truly loved their feline friends. Did you know that you were in such good company when it came to your fondness for cute kitties?
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1. Elizabeth Taylor
Taylor was known to love all animals, and cats were no exception. She even once gave James Dean a kitten as a gift, and wrote a letter to one ofer cats, which had gone missing while she was away filming a movie. The letter went as follows:
Letter to my Lovely Lost Cat I see you, my beauty boy, in the reflection of those shining black-brown rocks ahead of me. I see the green o’ thy eyes in every rained, sweated leaf shaking in my eyes. I remember the sweet smell of your fur against my neck when I was deeply in trouble and how, somehow you made it better – you knew! You knew always when I hurt and you made comfort for me, as I did once for you when you were a broken kitten. Anyway, I love you Cassius – and thank you for your beauty. Please come back!2. Florence Nightingale
Nightingale was the pioneer of modern nursing as well as a prolific medical writer, but she also really loved her cats. Over her lifetime, she is said to have had around 60 cats, and their inky little paw prints are all over her writings.
She was a career-focused woman, and the work she did was amazing, but she didn't have too many casual friendships. She simply preferred her work and her cats.
3. Mark Twain
Twain left many pro-cat quotes behind, one of them being: "I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course."
There is a man that loved cats, that's for darn sure.
4. Eartha Kitt
Kitt didn't just play Catwoman, she was a cat woman. Her cat was known to hang out backstage with her before her performances.
5. Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway is famous for being a cat person. A ship captain once gave him a white, six-toed cat named Snowball. Now, there are 40 to 50 six-toed cats roaming around the Hemingway House in Florida, all descendants of Snowball.
6. Isaac Newton
Newton was known for his work surrounding the laws of gravity, calculus… and the invention of the cat door, among a smattering of other groundbreaking discoveries and ideas.
When he studied at Cambridge, some think that his cats would constantly bother him trying to get in and out, so he cut holes in the door. It is widely known that these cats helped keep him company.
7. Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë and her two sisters, Charlotte and Anne, were ladies who loved their cats.
Emily once wrote in an essay that cats' attitudes are much more honest than the hypocrisy of humanity. She thought that cats had a sense of self reliance and honesty that humans don't want to admit as noble.
8. Harriet Beecher Stowe
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin sometimes let a cat named Calvin perch on her shoulder while she wrote.
According to her good friend Charles Dudley Warner, Calvin one day just walked right into her home and became a part of it.
9. Clara Barton
The founder of the Red Cross had one cat, Tommy, that was her companion for 17 years. A friend and fellow nurse even painted a portrait of the feline; the painting still hangs in Barton's old home in Maryland.
10. Edgar Allan Poe
Poe wrote multiple essays and stories about cats and had a few beloved felines of his own. One, named Catterina, would sit with him while he wrote grim stories about cat owners who were very unkind to their cats. Poe, on the other hand, was a very loving cat-dad.
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