Today the World Cat Day. Elegant, affectionate, surly, sweet, independent, terrifying and always fascinating. Those of us who are more dog lovers can also revere these creatures so beautiful, delicate but so agile and wrapped in a halo of permanent mystery. And as, protagonists or source of multiple and disparate literary inspiration. Here is the review of 7 titles from authors as different as Poe, Lessing, Christie, Mendoza or Bukowski, that one day they chose this feline as the reason for their stories. 

Illustrious cats - Doris Lessing

«A cat is a real luxury… You see him walking around your room and in his lonely walk you discover a leopard, even a panther». These are the words of the British writer, winner of a Nobel, about cats. I admired and loved them from very soon.

This book begins with the author's experiences in the African farm where she grew up and takes us to his adult life in London. In the middle, a journey through the continents and time, which has as its common thread many of the cats that had his life. This edition features illustrations by Joana santamans, which are one more extra that enriches the text.

On call with Oscar - David Dosa

How not to remember Oscar in this day? We all knew his story in 2007 because it went around the world. Oscar, one of the cats from a geriatric home in Rhode Island near New York, owns the gift of feeling when a patient is about to die. Thanks to the great repercussion, Dr. David Dosa, who does not particularly like cats and is rather skeptical about extraordinary gifts, decides to tell his story. Some are gathered here, as moving or sad as they are beautiful, and Dosa recounts them with great sensitivity.

Cats - Charles Bukowski

The transgressive writer I admired and respected cats a lot, so much so that he dedicated this book to them. For him they are authentic forces of nature and he analyzes the resistance and resilience of cats. Talk about his independence, how they do not take anything into account. And it does in this compendium of poems and prose which is both scathing and poignant, but never syrupy. Possibly surprise more than one.

Cat soul - Ruth Berger

Berger collects in this book fifty very significant stories for those who appreciate cats. They are stories full of complicity and unconditional love for them, and also funny surprises and anecdotes that make you smile and think.
From cats that take a nap and purr to their master to be forgiven after breaking a vase, passing through the classic disappearance of the feline on the day it is due to the vaccination. Also emotional stories of people whose cat has helped to overcome a moment of crisis or a long illness. A essential anthology for cat lovers and owners.

Cat fight - Eduardo Mendoza

How not to remember the title deserving of the Planet Award 8 years ago. A story of metaphorical cats signed by the great Eduardo Mendoza. Its protagonist, an Englishman named Anthony Whiteland, arrives aboard a train to Madrid very convulsive spring 1936. Must certify a chart unknown belonging to a friend of Cousin of Rivera, since its economic value can be decisive to favor a crucial political change in the history of Spain. But there will be many distractions for the art critic. Stormy loves with women of different social classes and various pursuers in the form of politicians, policemen or spies who move in the prelude to a civil war.

A cat in the dovecote - Agatha Christie

La british queen of the detective novel, which is once again in a raging cinematic topicality, a symbol of mystery such as the cat could not be left for one of his novels. Posted in 1959, this novel starring his Belgian detective Hercules Poirot takes us to the sultanate of Ramat, where there has been a serious insurrection. There the prince Ali Yusuf entrust the valuable family jewels to your pilot Bob rawlinson, who hides them in his sister's luggage Joan. Shortly after the prince and his pilot die in a plane crash. Joan travels to England with her daughter Jennifer, to which he interned in a elitist school for ladies. There, among the pigeons, he has hidden a killer cat, which only Poirot's sagacity can stop.

The black cat - Edgar Allan Poe

It was published in the newspaper Saturday evening post from Philadelphia in August 1843. Critics consider it one of the scariest in the history of literature. And anyone who has read it knows that it is so.

Un young married couple lead a homey and very peaceful life with their cat, until he begins to get carried away by the drink. Alcohol makes him irascible and in one of his fits of rage kill the cat. When a second cat appears on the scene, the family situation worsens and events rush to end in one of those outcomes that are not forgotten by their horror.