CM,
Can't tell you anything about the "cat house" but my three cool cats are:
-- the cat who "walked the top bar of the railing" (LXXIV)
-- the cat who "goose-stepped with eerie convulsions out of the night cast
by a cluster of statuary" in the prologue to Apes of God
-- and Gaudier-Brzeska's stone cat: http://nikln.narod.ru/g_b/cat.jpg
Tim Romano