Discovering the photographs, says the editor, was like “looking at old family photos,” peering behind the curtain into the intimate, private lives of artists she had written on in school. The images that touched her the most were those that captured the pure and simple harmony felt between a cat and his human. Agnès Varda, she notes, was so influenced by her cat Zgougou that she build a memorial upon her passing. German artist and model Veruschka, she discovered, had committed herself to rescuing felines in need, and Andy Warhol lived with twenty-five cats for a time. Edward Gorey’s pet cats, she says, were as bizarre and enchanting as the ones that flew from his pen, and one learned to purr only in her twilight years. Between artist and cat, Nastasi concludes, there sits a core of “mutual respect,” an understanding that eludes but no less enchants the remainder of the population.