Jack Kerouac's Cat

Born 92 years ago tomorrow, Jack Kerouac is best remembered as the free-spirited Beat pioneer with a penchant for babes, booze and bohemian exploits. But, as the more devoted of his readership will be aware, he was also a self-proclaimed "cat lover". Kerouac owned a number of felines throughout his lifetime, but his favourite was Tyke, "a big beautiful yellow Persian the kind they call calico," whose death he poign...