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Doris L. obviously took great delight in her various cats over the years. In between her VERY SERIOUS books she also wrote a number of short stories & small books about them.
One short story I love, but can't read a lot (because it always reduces me to tears!

) is 'An Old Woman & Her Cat' - about a fiercely independent old woman in London, who chooses to become a squatter rather than face the indignity of an 'old people's home', minus her cat. It's about how they survive together, then finally perish. Not at all soppy, totally credible.
She also wrote 'Particular Cats' & a favourite of mine, 'The old Age of El Magnifico'... about an old cat & his reactions to a serious ailment (won't give the story away!).
The thing I like about her cat writings is that she treats them with such respect! She obviously admires them enormously. Not at all sloppy, sentimental stuff. It was wonderful for me that the writer I most admired was also a serious observer of the cats in her life ...