Cats and felines in literature

Aineko, a talking robot cat in the "Accelerando" series of science-fiction short stories (and novel) by Charles Stross
Aslan the lion in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and other Narnia stories by C. S. Lewis
Bagheera the panther in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book
Behemoth(Begemot, Russian: Бегемот), the huge, trolley-riding, Satanic black cat in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
Belle Aude, La Bergère, Chatte Grise, Domino, Fanfare, Fossette, Jeune Bleue, Moune, Musette, La Noire, Poucette, La Toutouque, etc.—to mention just a few of Colette’s felines
Birdie, cat of forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan in Kathy Reichs' novels
"The Black Cat" in Edgar Allan Poe's short story, a study of the psychology of guilt
Blackmalkin, Greymalkin, and Nibbins, witches' cats in The Midnight Folk by John Masefield
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
The Cat with the fiddle who played hey-diddle-diddle in Tolkien's The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late
Tolkien's poem named "Cat" usually known by its first verse: The fat cat on the mat
The Cat That Walked by Himself in Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories.
The Cat Who... mystery novels written by Lillian Jackson Braun and featuring the detective James Qwilleran and his two Siamese cats Koko and Yum-yum
The cat who ran away with the pudding string in the nursery rhyme
Carbonel, King of the Cats, in Barbara Sleigh's Carbonel trilogy
The Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, based on the folk saying, "grinning like a Cheshire cat"
Chester, the cat in Bunnicula and sequels by James Howe
Church, the cat who comes back to life in Stephen King's Pet Sematary
Clarence, a pacifist library-dwelling cat who sleeps on the photocopier in Clarence the Copy Cat by Patricia Lakin
C'Mell, a humanoid cat, one of the animal-derived 'underpeople' in stories by Cordwainer Smith
The Cowardly Lion, from the Wizard of Oz series
Crookshanks, Hermione Granger's cat in the Harry Potter novels
Damn Cat, hero of the Gordons' Undercover Cat, who returns from a nightly prowl with a kidnapped woman's bracelet around his neck...But where has he been? Later adapted as the Disney film That Darn Cat
Dinah, Alice's pet cat, featured in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and his Through the Looking-Glass
Dragon, the farmer's cat in Robert C. O'Brien's Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Edgewood Dirk, the "prism cat" in the Landover novels by Terry Brooks
Eureka, Dorothy's cat in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, also known as the Pink Kitten
Mrs Figg's cats in Harry Potter
Fireheart, Graystripe, Tigerclaw, and other feral cats in the Warriors saga by Erin Hunter.
Francis the feline detective in the novels Felidae and Felidae on the Road by Akif Pirinçci
Fritti Tailchaser, along with companions Eatbugs and Pouncequick and a host of both supporting feline characters and mythical felines in the Tad Williams novel, Tailchaser's Song.
The fiddle-playing cat in the nursery rhyme where the cow jumped over the moon
The cat and her kittens in the traditional song "Froggy would a-wooing go"
Galia Tyranth in The Kingdoms and the Elves books by Robert Stanek rides a giant cat called a king cat. She is one of many Cat Patrollers.
Ginger, the yellow tomcat who kept shop with Pickles the dog in Beatrix Potter's Ginger and Pickles
Gingivere, Tsarmina's brother in the Redwall book Mossflower who helped the woodlanders free Mossflower from Tsarmina.
The Glass Cat, a cat made of glass in The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Gobbolino in Gobbolino, the Witch's Cat by Ursula Moray Williams. Her other books with eponymous feline protagonists include:
Jeffy, the Burglar's Cat and
The Nine Lives of Island Mackenzie
Good Fortune, the cat who goes to heaven in the award-winning story by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Graybar, the black, mouse-hating stray cat in the book Ragweed by Avi and Brian Floca, part of the Poppy Books series.
Graymalk, Jill the Witch's familiar and accomplice of Snuff, from the novel A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny. This is a variation on Grimalkin, the name of the witch's cat in MacBeth by Shakespeare (a graymalkin or grimalkin is an old or evil-looking she-cat)
Greebo, a witch's cat (in Terry Pratchett novels: see Discworld characters)
Guenhwyvar, Drizzt Do'Urden's mystical black panther from R. A. Salvatore's "The Dark Elf Trilogy". (see Guenhwyvar (cat))
Gummitch the superkitten, in Fritz Leiber's Space-time For Springers
The Hungry Tiger, the Cowardly Lion's closest friend, introduced in Ozma of Oz
I Am a Cat by Natsume Soseki, a cat describing his owner in Japan
Itty in Hugh Lofting's Dr Dolittle's Return
Jennie, of the Paul Gallico children's book Jennie, released in the U.S. as The Abandoned
Jenny Linsky, a small black cat and her brothers, Checkers and Edward along with her cat friends Pickles, Florio and Macaroni from Esther Averill's children's books.
Kater Murr (Tomcat Murr), in E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Life and Opinions of Kater Murr" (1819-1821)
Kitty, the Ingalls family mouser in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books
Little Cats A through Z, from Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
Professor McGonagall who can shapeshift into a tabby cat in Harry Potter
Beth March's kittens in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
Matroskin (Russian: Матроскин, from "матрос" (matros), "sailor"), in Eduard Uspensky's Uncle Fyodor, His Dog and His Cat
Maurice, star of The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
Mehitabel, from archy and mehitabel, a dialogue between a melancholy cockroach and a heedless cat, by Don Marquis
Midnight Louie, 20 pound (9 kg) tomcat companion to (and fellow investigator with) amateur sleuth, Temple Barr, featured in a series of romantic mystery novels by Carole Nelson Douglas; occasionally assisted by his sire 3 O'Clock Louie, his Ma Barker ("my bite's worse than any dog's") and her 24th Street gang, his kit Midnight Louise, his goad Karma and his eyes and ears, on the street Sassafrass and over the street Ingram; introduce yourself with The Las Vegas Quartet, followed by Catnap, thenPussyfoot, then voyage from "Be" ta "Zed" ("A"? - don't ask - and beware the lethal Hyacinth).
Minnaloushe, from William Butler Yeats' poem The Cat and the Moon.
Mogget, a magical entity in the form of a cat, in the fantasy novels Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen by Garth Nix
Mottyl, the cat in Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findlay
Mrs Norris in Harry Potter
Mrs. Murphy, a cat who helps her human, Mary Minor 'Harry' Haristeen, solve mysteries, in a series of novels by Rita Mae Brown. Her cat, Sneaky Pie Brown, is credited as co-author.
O'lal, monitor of Earth in Alan Dean Fosters Cat-A-Lyst
Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) is the eponymous hero of a series of illustrated children's books written by Kathleen Hale.
Petronius Arbiter, Pete in Robert A. Heinlein's The Door Into Summer.
Pixel in Robert A. Heinlein's novel To Sail Beyond the Sunset, and appearing briefly in other Heinlein stories. Despite the name of the book and Pixel's unique ability to cause an interdimensional cat-door to appear in any surface, the novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls is not about Pixel.
Pixel, the feline companion of P.C. O'Data in the syndicated comic strip PC and Pixel by Thach Bui.
Powder, the albino Siamese from uncommon children's series Powder The Cat
Pussy-Cat, the Owl's fiancée in Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
The pussycat who went to London to see the queen, in the nursery rhyme.
Rhiow, Saash, and Urruah, and other feline characters of The Book of Night with Moon by Diane Duane
Ribby, the cat who serves Duchess the dog a traumatizing pie in Beatrix Potter's The Pie and the Patty Pan
Rotten Ralph, the very bad cat in Jack Gutos's book
Sam The Cat Detective, main character of the Sam The Cat Mysteries.
Sampson in the Church Mice series by Graham Oakley
In reference to Schrödinger's Cat:
Schrödinger's Cat is a science fiction story by Ursula K. Le Guin in 1974.
The Schrödinger's Cat trilogy is the name commonly given to a trilogy of science fiction/conspiracy theory novels written by Robert Anton Wilson
Shere Khan the tiger in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book
The Shy Little Kitten of the children's book written by Cathleen Schurr and illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren
Silversides, the white, mouse-hating cat in the book "Ragweed" by Avi and Brian Floca, part of the Poppy Books series.
Simpkin in Beatrix Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester
Spiegel, from Spiegel the Cat by Gottfried Keller
Squire Julian Gingivere, barn cat who Matthias me on his quest to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior in the novel Redwall.
Svartalf , a big black witch's familiar in Operation Chaos by Poul Anderson
The three little kittens who lost their mittens in the nursery rhyme
Tao, the Siamese cat from Sheila Burnford's novel The Incredible Journey.
Tiger the vegetarian cat and others in the movie An American Tail
Tigger in Winnie the Pooh
Tobermory the talking cat, protagonist of a short story by the satirist Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)
Tobias, a tall black talking cat with significant magical powers in the Tim and the Hidden People series by Sheila McCullough. Father of Sebastian, who is affectionate towards his "owner" Tim who saved him from drowning. Sebastian is a Strange One (neither part of the Hidden People nor a normal cat).
Tom Kitten, a curious but disobedient young cat in the children's stories "The Tale of Tom Kitten" and "The Roly Poly Pudding" by Beatrix Potter; also Tom's mother, Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit, and his siblings Moppet and Mittens.
Tug, the cat given by Ged to Alder to protect him from nightmares, in The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin
"The Cats of Ulthar", who take revenge upon the murder of a kitten in H. P. Lovecraft's story of that name: from that day, it was forbidden to harm a cat in that city.
"The Unadulterated Cat" by Terry Pratchett and Joliffe Gray
Mr. Underfoot in Robert A. Heinlein's Friday
Upgraded cats in Reginald Bretnor's "Genius of the Species" take over the Soviet Union
The main and supporting characters in the book series "Warriors" are all cats.
Wolsey, a {tabby} cat which travelled in Dr.Who's TARDIS during the Virgin Books Adventures
The yellow tom on the ship "Pound of Candles," who helped Little Pig Robinson escape being dinner, and who was engaged to a "snowy owl of Lapland," in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Zoom, in Tim Wynne-Jones' series of children's books, e.g. Zoom at Sea (ISBN 0-88899-021-9)

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