I've just finished a VERY interesting novel called BLITZCAT by Robert Westall (1989, Scholastic Inc, NY),
about a black cat named LORD GORT who travelled around wartime Britain searching for his human person.

I seems it was based on a true story.

Apparently, a Professor J.B. Rhine of Duke University had (at the time of this book's publication) studied over 300 cases of "psi-trailing" and authenticated more than 50 ...

Cheers! R-J