Contains:
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.