Soon after he came to live with my wife and I, Mij – a very special cat – began to keep a diary; a record of his life, in photographs and anecdotes, explaining in his own inimitable way some of the positives and negatives of being a cat. These notes, which became known as the Mij Chronicles, proved very popular with many members of the family, and friends who knew him, and so were distributed from Mij’s own e-mail address. And he made friends easily; he was that sort of cat. After a while, as Mij became increasingly busy with his various other feline duties, he found less time to devote to his diary, and then, suddenly and tragically, at the very young age of just fourteen months, the last of his “nine lives” ran out..