Literary Pets: The Cats, Dogs, and Birds Famous Authors Loved

PHOTOS: Famous Authors With Their Pets
American author Ernest Hemingway sitting at table where cat drinks out of water glass in foreground. (Photo by Tore Johnson/Pix Inc./Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
American author Ernest Hemingway sitting at table where cat drinks out of water glass in foreground. (Photo by Tore Johnson/Pix Inc./Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

The wonderful recent Lost Cat memoir, one of my favorite books of the past few years, reminded me of how central, yet often unsuspected, a role pets have played in famous authors' lives throughout literary history.

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