It wasn’t long before “The Cat That Looks Like Adam Driver” had become a viral phenomenon, and requests from journalists were inundating her mentions. But before the whole world fell in love with the big-eared lookalike, I already had.This cat and I are meant to be together,We’d had family cats growing up, and as an adult, my former fiancé and I had rescued a kitten from the streets of Bushwick and proceeded to treat him as sort of a starter baby.
So as the gears of the internet were pinging and whirring and driving “Adam Driver Cat” to greater and greater virality, my against-all-odds story got its happy ending as I officially adopted him. I decided to name him Kylo Ren after one of his actor doppelganger’s best-known characters.Photo Courtesy of Emily McCombs
OLH cats are also known to be loyal and extremely loving, and they become deeply attached to their chosen people. One description I read said, “This breed doesn’t just want attention ― they need it desperately if they are to live happy, healthy lives.” My son was just 4 years old when we adopted Kylo, and was accordingly loud and fast-moving and the opposite of gentle. But Kylo never snapped or scratched or swiped at him even once. He was endlessly tolerant, letting himself essentially be handled like a living teddy bear.
Every single night, when it was time for my son to begin his bedtime routine, Kylo would trot into his room while he was brushing his teeth and wait in his bed to cuddle with us during family book time. The day after Kylo’s death, Kiddo climbed into bed alone and asked me,“Who am I going to sleep with now?” This was only slightly less heartbreaking than hearing him sporadically repeat, “But he was myHonesty, he dealt with the grief better than I did.