I wanted to like my late aunt's cat, but I just don't know if it's cute enough ...
I just don't know about him ... he's a bit homely ...
He is also quite aloof and standoffish, I really can't tell if he likes me at all.
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Look at it here, lulling me into a false sense of security while he plots my demise!
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I swear if I let him he'd be on top of me like 12 hours a day.
And I'm also a total softie so I make for an excellent subject as well.
Also, given his name is Jean-Luc ... assimilation was probably inevitable.
Such a hardship - 
Both of you...
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^^^ Jean-Luc wanted to add his 2 cents to my post, so there it is 
But still, yeah, you're probably right about the magnetism thing
Face it, man, you're nothing more than a big pillow...with hands that bring food.
Done for...I say, done for...
Nice knowing ya...
Better give him extra snuggles. You know ... cute him up some.
What a lovecat you have there. 
He is a little LoveCat. And a grey one, at that!
It's the grooviest thing, it's the perfect dream
Honestly its almost like having a little cartoon character living w/me.
Congrats on joining the can opener with opposable thumbs club.
I'm sure your late aunt is smiling on you both.
May you love each other for many years. 
I don't know the back story, but pets whose owners pass away very often just get dumped.
WHAT a beauty he is. It's a shame he's so standoffish. 
eta: I went back and looked at your other posts. Bless you for taking him.
There are 5 other indoor cats and then a host of ferals that live outside that she fed, got fixed (if possible), etc.
Her house is staying in the family (belongs to my 2 cousins) and someone is paid to come to feed them all 2X a day.
All the indoor ones but JL started out as feral, but this little guy was her 'splurge', a pure-bred Burmese (her sister, my mom, has 3 Burmese as well) she got as a baby, and paid I'm guessing quite a bit for.
JL was very attached to my aunt, and nobody in the family wanted him to have to live with no hooman of his own, so I was recruited. My previous boy passed in January 2021, at age 17.5 yo, and I'd had him with me for 17 years, so ... timing so happened where I was ready to think about another kitteh, and then JL became available (sadly of course) and needed a person, so what was I going to do? 
To have provided for her kitties this way!
She's very very scared. She was the last thing left in the house and they had to get her out before the new owners came. I had to camp out in the basement for a couple hours to catch her. She's been here 2 months now and hasn't come out from under the bed in the spare room upstairs in the farmhouse. I take her food and gave her her own litter box up there and she will let me reach under give her treats and pet her a little but won't come out. Hoping at some point she warms up.
It's been 2 weeks exactly for this kiddo. He started out living under the bed for the first few days, coming out really only to eat his wet food for breakfast and dinner or use the potty. I coaxed him out a couple times and picked him up and brought him to the couch, where he was willing to hang out as long as he was attached to my lap or chest, but he'd only last 20 mins or so before he decided he needed to hide again.
He still typically retreats to under my bed to sleep during the day, but after day 5 I started giving him wet food dinner when I went to bed, in the kitchen ... and locking him out of the bedroom so he'd have to get used to the house while I slept. But ... I live alone, no other pets, and my neighborhood is very quiet so there's nothing for him to really be scared of at night.
After about 1 week, he almost never sleeps in the daytime, and instead just wants to be on top of me like 12 hours a day. My aunt obviously spoiled him, and this breed (Burmese) is well known for being very affectionate and attached to their hooman. 'Velcro kitties' is a very apt description.
It's a honestly a bit much, coming from 17 years with a much more standoffish Snowshoe Siamese ... but he's so friggin cute and sweet it's hard to turn him down
I dunno if you have reason why it's a bad idea in your case, but the locking him out of rooms with beds at night seemed to help with 'fear of the new house' in this cat's case.
That's a great story about Boca ... very cool of you!
May Nova soon take her rightful place in the household and become simpatico with her kitty cousins 
