Jake must have persuaded Whatsisname to let him out into Late Spring: Jake is wet.
Heinlein could have saved himself a lot of trouble by having a cat that could walk through walls at that farmhouse.
Cats do that here, but it’s not because of special abilities by the cats. It just describes how decrepit some of the walls have become. After all, many of them are near as old as I am.
Some days, I have to close the Door Into Summer, or the A/C runs too much and I get too cold to move.
No rain, here. 90s today.