When someone takes in a kitten, they rarely consider that this tiny bundle of energy might one day lose its joy for play. Eventually, hearing diminishes, movement becomes stiff, the cat no longer grooms itself carefully, and it wants to spend most of its later life sleeping in a warm and safe place. This time of aging is for us cat owners a moment between worlds - the joy of the unbridled zest for life of the young animals gives way to an awareness of the finiteness of this life and our time together. However, old age also offers the opportunity to consciously experience this final phase, to be awake day by day and to participate in the increasing physical fragility and tenderness, as well as the emotional changes, leading to a pronounced obsession with rituals and a strong need for closeness and familiarity from the elderly cat.