1. Ernest Hemingway: had cats named Alley Cat, Boise, Crazy Christian, Dillinger, Ecstacy, Mr. Feather Puss, Fats, Friendless, Furhouse, Pilar, Skunk, Thruster, Whitehead, and Willy
2. Collette: had cats named Franchette, Kapok, Kiki-la-Doucette, Kro, La Chatte, La Chatte Dernière, La Touteu, Mini-Mini, Minionne, Muscat, One and Only, Petiteu, Pinichette, Toune, and Zwerg
3. Winston Churchill: had cats named Blackie, Bob, Jock, Margate, Mr. Cat, Nelson, and Tango
4. Victor Hugo: had cats named Gavroche (renamed Chanoine) and Mouche
5. F. Scott Fitzgerald: had a cat named Chopin
6. Mark Twain: had cats named Apollinaris, Beelzebub, Blatherskite, Buffalo Bill, Satan, Sin, Sour Mash, Tammany, and Zoroaster
7. T. S. Eliot: had cats named George Pushdragon, Noilly Prat, Pettipaws, Tantomile, and Wiscus
8. Willaim Makepeace Thackeray: had a cat named Louisa
9. Robert Southey: had cats named Hurlyburlybuss, Lord Nelson, Madame Bianchi, Madame Catalini, Othello, Ovid, Pulcheria, Sir Thomas Dido, Virgil, the Zombi, and last but not least The Most Noble the Archduke Rumpelstizchen, Marquis Macbum, Earle Tomemange, Baron Raticide, Waowler, and Skaratchi
10. Agnes Reppelier: had cats named Agrippina, Banquo, Banshee, Carl, and Nero
11. Matthew Arnold: had cats named Atossa and Blacky
12. Ella Wheeler Wilcox: had cats named Ajax, Banjo, Goody Two Eyes, and Madame Ref
13. Lord Byron: had a cat named Beppo
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39 comments:
BEST TT EVER! I love cats, and I love books. And if you know French, Colette's cats' names are hilarious!
we visited Hemingways House last year and I loved it.Theres a lot of history there and a lot of 6 toes kitties
I love cats and I seem to be in very good company! Great list, interesting. Dew is right, Colette's cats have funny names!
My TT lists 13 favourite detectives (books).
I may be ambivalent about Hemingway as a writer, but he was a great fur person. If you visit his home in Key West, you're in for a treat. All museums should have litter boxes all about and a kitten lounging in the typewriter that wrote Farewell to Arms.
Didn't TS Elliot write the poem that the musical Cats was based on? I forget the title.
I love TS Eliot's cats' names! They're so fun and very practical :p Fun list!
Lord Byron named his cat Beppo, that's all he could come up with? I'm shocked!!!!! ;)
Happy TT my friend to the south!!!
Soon we'll add Thomma Lyn to the list of famous writers who liked cats and we'll say she had a cat named Chairman Mao. Much better than Beppo.
Great idea for a post, I never thought to look that up before! :)
Mmmm. Can't wait until you and I are on lists for writers who are also cat lovers!
Happy TT, darling! Thanks for dropping by, as always. Hope you'll come back for another chocolate outtake this weekend.
Ah... writers and their cats.
Why did Hugo rename Gavroche? Was it before or after Les Mis??
Great post TL!
now that's pretty dang cool. Amazing the facts that we store about people.
Lloyd Alexander had five cats but I don't recall their names.
I've got your TT for next week. Just as someone else did this week, why don't you list next week the names of books for each of these writers. Great list!
What a great combination: cats and books. We have both in our household.
Allister our big orange tabby rules the roost . . . am I mixing metaphors? Yes, I think I am.
Thanks for stopping by - much appreciate our daily! exchange - hugs, XINE
Now, with all the authors who have websites, it's so much easier to find the ailurophiles :D
Wow that's a lot of cats! And great ideas for cat names too.
Wonderful idea for a TT. :-)
I have the best cat ever! She's laying on my right now. Cute list! Happy TT!
Remember May is National Military Appreciation Month!
I wish we could have cats, but MM is allergic. :-( Happy TT!
Some of those are GREAT names! My girls are Bijou, Phoebe, and Kieran.
Happy Thursday.
Thackaray and Byron obviously needed more cats! Fun TT :) Thanks!
Thanks for the TT. For some reason it made me laugh.
I have one cat right now and his name is Gus.
Hope you are having a smile shining day.
What a crach up that in amongst all these amazing names Winston Churchill's cat was called Bob! My torty girls are Gertie and Gracie! Great TT!
I'm not a cat person which seems to explain why other peoples cats like me. Just cats proving their contrary nature.
I picked up The Killers on DVD last week and I'd forgotten it was based on an Ernest Hemingway short story.
Twenty says every single one of those cats would stick their paws in the writer's drink to get their attention.
I swear every writer I know has a cat that does it =)
I didn't know the Victor Hugo one! Cool. Cats & books, 2 of my 3 favorite things.
I have the same template as you, too :)
Well...I'm in good company then! :-) Happy TT!
WOW! Those are some inventive names. My dh named his cats Spunky and Smokey. We now have one named Sophie. Guess we like "S" names.
Great list! However did you find all that info? Can you imagane calling, "Here Hurleyburleybuss! Come here kitty. Come on Hurleyburleybuss!" about a gadjillion times? And then, of course, being ignored.
Let me guess...you must be a cat lover;)
Nice list. Would not have thought about this one.
Check out my TT.
I've just read about Ernest Hemmingway and how he chased all his cats inside before an approaching hurricane in the Florida Keys, interesting post.
Wonder of Lewis Carrol loved cats?
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Who knew? I love that you put the names of the cats. Great list! Come visit my TT if you get a chance!
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I'm totally a cat person too.
You have to love a cat person. Great list!
Science fiction/romance author Linnea Sinclair is a cat lover too!
Seems all great writers have cats, Thomma.
OK then... *Note to self*: Get a cat if you want to be looked at as a real writer.
I love their names too :)
I love kitties. I have 7 of them. This was a very intersting T13. Thanks!
I love Mark Twain's cats the best!
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