The Ghost Cat12 decades, 9 lives, 1 cat Early morning, 1902. In a gloomy Edinburgh tenement, Eilidh the charlady tips coal into a fire grate and sets it alight. Overhearing, a cat ambles over to curl up against the welcome heat. This is to be the cat's last day on earth. But he is going to return as The Ghost Cat, a spirit feline destined to live out his ghostly existence according to the medieval proverb of "The Cat with Nine Lives" For Three He Plays, For Three