Hello, dear Bootsie, my precious, beautiful, handsome boy. I miss you so. You were my heart kitty, my sweet baby boy. You were the gentlest kitty I've ever had in my whole life, and I loved you so...
When we found you and your three littermates, you were so tiny and cute, and I just loved your markings and your personality and picked you to keep forever and ever...
You grew up so cute, and you were full of love and affection. You weren't crazy about being picked up, but I could hold you in my lap and you loved it when I petted you. I never saw that you even hunted anything, sweetheart. I don't think you had it in you. You were so gentle and easygoing, and were always, always sweet with your twin sister, your daddy, your great aunt, and your other siblings, too. I never knew of you ever being grumpy for one second in your whole life. That's incredible, sweetheart. You must have really been a gift to us from God. Only God could make someone so perfect.
You grew up to be a big kitty, and I used to call you "my little cougar". Oh, how I thought you were so gorgeous! I'll tell you something funny. You know how your daddy likes to tease me. Well, when we were first married, and had to drive a while each morning to get to work, and then back home that afternoon, we always rode together whenever we could. Well, sometimes, if we took the route over the causeway to come home, just minutes from home, there was the lake on both sides, and Daddy would start smiling and look over at me and say "Boots is in the middle of the lake and he's swimming and swimming and trying so hard and wondering where his mommy is"...and of course I started to laugh and then would gently pat him on the arm and say, "Stop it! Please tell me he's not!" and he would tell me you were, sweet Boots! Lol! Then I would tell Daddy to hurry, hurry up, I have to get home to see you to make sure you're not swimming in the lake! Lol! Isn't that a silly story? Your parents are so silly, my little one. That was a fun story, and I wanted to be sure to remember it. The love for you that would well up in me, just like it is as I'm writing this to you now, when Daddy would tease me with that joke, would just be so much! I love you so much, my handsome kitty!
It was so hard watching you become frail. Your twin sister, Mittens passed a year and a half before you, and your kitty daddy, Black Kitty, earlier that year. But you, my love, also tried so hard and stayed with me for so long, my brave little guy...
I love you, my precious Boots. I miss you, my honey boy... 
Love,
Your Mommy Forever
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