Ha!
I have a couple myself.
There are a couple great scenes in the posthumous Islands in the Stream featuring Hem’s felines, one with a fearsome tom up in a tree, which Thomas Hudson notices and is exquistely described...and the other of the great loyal tom named Boise that has been trained to retrieve Hudson’s prescription pill (heart medicine? I can’t recall at the moment) from under the bed...”Bring the medicine Boy...bring the medicine to Papa...”
He also loved his women and his drink, ennobling qualities as well.
Indeed