Thanks for confirming! It looks like it might be traceable to "the Golden Bough" (1890): “The cat, which represented the devil, could never suffer enough.” F

Thanks for confirming! It looks like it might be traceable to "the Golden Bough" (1890): “The cat, which represented the devil, could never suffer enough.” From https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3623/pg3623-images.html https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3623/pg3623-images.html