Is Cat Person based on a book? As alluded to above, the film is not based on a book per se, but a short story that was written by Kristen Roupenian and published in The New Yorker in 2017.

"For Toast, the cat, who was no help at all," reads the dedication page of researcher Jonathan Saha's book, Colonizing Animals. A picture of the page went viral on Twitter.

Kristen Roupenian's viral short story, 'Cat Person,' is now a feature film with a wildly different ending. It's sure to be just as polarizing, but it works.

The story was subsequently reprinted in Roupenian’s first book, a 2019 anthology titled You Know You Want This: “Cat Person” and Other Stories. Roupenian reportedly received an advance of $1 ...

Dewey the Library Cat: A True Story Vicki Myron and Bret Witter, Little, Brown, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-06871-0 ...

“The Year of the Buttered Cat: A Mostly True Story” (Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers) by Susan Haas with Lexi Haas also includes discussion and activity guides for ages 9 ...