A rescue cat saves her human

A rescue cat saves her human

It’s a boom time for cosy books about cats. Luckily, despite its treacly subtitle – Masha, the half-wild rescue cat who rescued me – Caleb Carr’s My Beloved Monster refuses cosiness. Carr’s memoir of his last cat knows that there is no such thing as rescue, or healing: only solidarity (he calls it a “Romance”) through the last painful years of Carr and Masha’s lives. They live and decline and die together: Masha in 2022, Carr two years later. Ca…