At one point, Mark Twain had 19 cats

Twain loved cats a lot so much that he once had 19 of them, which is one of the interesting facts about Mark Twain Additionally, he would "hire" pets to keep him company while on the road. He also said, "If the man and the cat could be crossed, it would improve man, but it would degenerate cat," demonstrating his considerably higher view of cats than of people. Beelzebub, Blatherskite, Buffalo Bill, Sour Mash, Zoroaster, Soapy Sal, Pestilence, Bambino, and Satan were just a few of the cats he had as a brood. He also had a knack for coming up with creative cat names. Cats were included in Twain's novels as well. In some of his most well-known works, cats appear as cameos. Peter is one of the numerous cats that appear in his novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer".

Perhaps Twain’s greatest feline passion was Bambino, a cat that Twain originally kept with his daughter Clara. Twain used his pen to search for Bambino after he vanished. According to Hutchison, he "put up an advertisement in the New York American offering a $5 prize to bring the lost cat back to his residence at 21 Fifth Avenue in New York City." "Large and profoundly black; thick, velvety fur; has a small fringe of white hair around his chest; not easy to find in ordinary light," Twain wrote of his cherished pet.