Puss is gorgeous -- may many long, healthy & happy years see the two of you together yet. :cheers:
My two all-black cats are now nearing the halfway mark in their own 7th years (they're brothers) and they're my first all-my-own cats ever. I wanted cats for as long as I can remember, but I'm severely allergic to cats (on my allergy test this year, the cats' mark on my arm was out of control!)...but, it didn't stop me.

I adore my boys (Strasti is my avatar)...I can't imagine life without them...and selfishly, they're one of the big reasons I haven't had children yet! I can't imagine taking away my time with them...

(When my mother married, my father refused to let her bring her blue-point Siamese cat Minnie with her because he was supposedly* allergic...and when she talks about Minnie, it's obvious that she feels regret that she wasn't there for Minnie during her own last few years. I couldn't bear the thought of that...thus, I've only dated men who are non-allergic...

And, just not had kids yet...!) I have more photos of my cats -- which now include Aleph, my half-feral orange & white tabby (every day is Halloween chez moi!) -- than anything or anyone else in my life...
*The irony is that when my youngest sister, Katie -- who my father has favored since infancy (believe me, even my mother would vouch for this one!) -- wanted a cat, he allowed her to get one without a single gripe. And wouldn't you know it? Nary an allergic symptom. Go figure.