Outworld Cats (edition 1994)

It had been a standard mission - investigating a communications station the Earth humans had built in orbit. But when the General Alarm sounded, two members of the extraterrestrial feline team did not make it back to their ship in time.
Stranded aboard the space station, the two outworld cats found their troubles were only beginning. for when saboteurs in the pal of industrial mogul Benton Ingles came aboard the cats were captured and brought to Earth.

But unlike the Earth animals they so closely resembled, these furry beings were not only fully sentient but telepaths as well. Using all their skills and training, they were able to escape their captors, and they soon found willing allies: a college student named Tim, a wealthy eccentric and occultist named Tedworth Vay, Vay's telepathic ward Rhoda, and an aging movie star called Lola Londi.
Together this oddly mixed and uniquely talented group would take up the challenge of stopping Ingles in his bid to seize control of worldwide communicators system.