★An exciting journey to discover that anywhere in the world there is a cat story as curious as it is magical.
★The Egyptians considered it a sacred animal and Mohammed, it is said, cut off his tunic so as not to wake up his cat when he was left alone. There are many cat stories and not all of them are here, but the ones that are will delight any feline heart. Come in... and purr.
★English sample available.

Why do more and more people have a cat at home? What is it about this animal that seduces us? Pam Brown said that "a cat transforms the return to an empty house into a homecoming" and, today, we can already be sure that it will be the pet of the future. The cat is the absolute protagonist on social networks with millions of videos and views per year all over the world. In fact, Google's brain is constantly working to find them on the web.

But not even the cattiest of cat people are aware of the interesting stories that these animals have. Did you know that Egyptian women would shave their heads and dress in mourning clothes when their cat died? Or that if you adopt one of the feline guardians who have been guarding the Hermitage for 200 years, you get free admission to the museum forever?
And that in the early 20th century all the New York newspapers carried cat stories next to other stories as important as those of the cats alongside such important stories as Hitler's atrocities?
On this feline journey around the world you will dream of Siamese cat legends in temples in Thailand, political minnows working in Downing Street, six-toed moustached cats that inspired Hemingway, Roman citizen cats (the only beings to be Roman citizens (the only creatures allowed to climb monuments) with battle-hardened cats who have taken part in naval battles. You'll discover that Icelandic television broadcasts a cat Big Brother, that in Japan there are hotels with cat rooms to cure loneliness and that a Russian bank gave you a kitten when you took out a mortgage with it.
This book brings together a thousand and one adventures of this magical creature that has fascinated mankind for ten thousand years.

Esther Pedraza is a journalist and has been telling stories in audiovisual and written media for more than 30 years. She has worked with Chicho Ibáñez Serrador on Waku, with Luis del Olmo on Punto Radio - replacing him during the last stage of Protagonistas - and with María Teresa Campos on TVE, Telecinco and Antena 3. She has directed and presented Dame teatro and Llámame Madrid on M21, and Decídete por Esther on Decisión Radio. For twelve years she presented the nightly programme Caliente y Frío. When she met Almudena they started an adventure together on Radio Libertad with a weekly programme called Lenguas de Gato, a sybaritic space where they talked about felines in the world and their relationship with the arts, as well as celebrities talking about their moustachioed friends. The programme changed its name, Los gatos dominarán el mundo (Cats will rule the world), and its radio station, in 2021, but its essence remained unchanged. Together they have made cat lovers and non-cat lovers fall in love, and now they want to continue to do so in the pages of this book.

Almudena Díaz-Miguel is a pioneer in the creation of a cat hotel in Spain. In 2010 she opened Gatosphera, considered one of the best cat hotels in Europe, where many of the pets of popular celebrities spend time. where many pets of popular characters spend time. She knows cats and their humans better than anyone else, and always knows how to give them what they like. At a very young age, she started in the business world in different sectors, until felines marked her destiny. She is currently training in Ethology and Animal Behaviour. She has always believed that these animals were special and when he crossed paths with Esther Pedraza, she decided that the time had come to tell the world about it through the airwaves.