Contents: Introduction -- A cat for all seasons / Cleveland Amory -- Cat in the rain / Ernest Hemingway -- Long live the queen / Ruth Rendell -- The cat hotel / Fritz Leiber -- Nashville gone to ashes / Amy Hempel -- Schrödinger's cat / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Affection / Cornelia Nixon -- A long time sitting / Charlotte Macleod -- The white cat / Joyce Carol Oates -- Cats / Robley Wilson, Jr. -- Skitty / Mercedes Lackey -- Noble warrior / Andre Norton -- Clara's cat / Elizabeth Moon -- Asking Mr. Bigelow / Susan Shwartz -- The Maltese double cross / Carole Nelson Douglas -- The duel / J.A. Jance -- Nine livs to live / Sharyn McCrumb -- Fat cat / Nancy Pickard -- Enduring as dust / Bruce Holland Rogers -- How I found a cat, lost true love and broke the bank at Monte Carlo / Bill Crider A cargo of cat / Ambrose Bierce -- The white and black dynasties / Théophile Gautier -- Chicago and the cat / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer -- Touching is good for living creatures / Merrill Joan Gerber -- The islands / Alice Adams -- Felis catus / Gina Berriault -- The cat-hood of Maurice / E. Nesbit -- The white cat / E. Nesbit -- Sir Roderick comes to lunch / P.G. Wodehouse -- The afflictions of an English cat / Honoré de Balzac -- Oscar the socialite cat / James Herriot -- The start of the end of it all / Carol Emshwiller -- Teddy's tale / Roger Caras -- The penance / Saki -- Phut Phat concentrates / Lillian Jackson Braun.