Calico Heart

A moving memoir of love, caregiving, and loss, as one man recounts the final months of life with the cat who changed him forever.

"Calico Heart" opens with me discovering my normally-rambunctious, 15-year-old calico cat, Muffin, collapsed and out of breath under her cat tree. From there, it progresses to her being diagnosed with heart failure, being given a treatment plan that included multiple medications, which the finicky cat wouldn't take without a fight, and, finally, my partner and I h...