This anthology records 25 centuries of cat loving and hate, in letters, journals, stories and verse from the world's most popular to the world's least likely cat commentators: from T.S. Eliot to T.E. Lawrence, from Aristotle to Amis, from Diodorus to Dickens, from Hemingway to Seamus Heaney. It is a volume aimed at cat lovers and cat sceptics alike, as well as those who enjoy discovering more about famous men and women - as targeted by their feline friends.