The person has tamed a cat much later than a dog. The cat is one of the most common rets. 

The cat becomes attached to the house, rather than to the person, and returns affection.

At various times the cats were approached in different ways. In ancient Egypt it was  a sacred animal. 

For a murder of a cat, a person was given the death penalty. This had mostly to do with the fact  that a cat helped get rid of house rodents.

Sometimes a person becomes closer to the cat than to other people. There was a case when a woman left her entire will to her cat, which was over 100 million pounds of sterling.
 

The cat, like any house animal, demands care, attention, time and the responsibility.

However the pleasure which it gives  to a person compensates for all the complexities connected with its maintenance.
 

In the museum you can see sets of figures of cats made of a marble, metal, glass, porcelain, along  with their paintings.

One of the halls is allocated to wild ancestors of the cat, and the most valuable exhibit is the mummy of an animal, which age surpasses  5 thousand years. The museum building  is surrounded by the sculptures of the cats.

By appearance the cat resembles it's ancestors. There are only some changes in the structure of the ear, more expressed camber of the temporal bones,  truncated muzzle and in color.