This is gonna piss you off, ping!
As for meeting a large cat person in prison, I hope it happens, too. And those do exist. I worked with and became friends with a huge, hulking, fierce-looking Marine last year - the guy looked like he came right off of the USMC recruiting poster - and he would become Jell-O around this cat who hung out on our compound. He spoiled her with food from the chow hall, petted her everytime he saw her, made "nests" for her out of old blankets and towels on cold nights and ordered cat food off of netgrocer.com for her (and her feline friends.)
This criminal creep needs to come up against somebody built like that who loves cats.