'This Cat Is Meant To Be Here'

Miracle in Real Life

- Ashley Lewis

ON A CHILLY MARCH evening in 2014 in Lucedale, Mississippi, USA, Ann Bosche, then 53, stood on her front steps while her mini dachshund, Gracie, took a bathroom break. Gracie sniffed an unwelcome visitor under the camellia bush and barked. Ann bent and saw a pair of green eyes.

“Hello, there,” Ann said, and heard a meow in reply. Ann, who had two resident cats, Bosco and Junior, went inside. She returned with a bowl of cat food and slid it beneath the bush.