Baby Grey lost her best friend Gracie more than a year ago, yet the cat still shows up to the house looking for her playmate.

Baby Grey comes into the yard like clockwork, waiting by the sliding door – hoping that her friend will show up. The poor little cat will wait there for 20 minutes, sometimes more.

Gracie’s owner, Shea Belew Brennaman, a fourth-grade teacher from Decatur, Alabama, first noticed the Baby Grey visiting her yard two and a half years prior to Gracie’s passing away.

“I think it lives two cul-de-sacs over from us and I don’t know its name,” Brennaman said to The Dodo. “Me and my family just refer to it as Baby Grey.”

Gracie accepted her into our yard immediately and the two became fast friends,” Brennaman said.

As time wore on, Baby Grey’s visits grew more frequent. Gracie was always excited to see her, and always acted the generous host to her cat friend. It had seemed that the two of them really found a best friend in each other.

“She had a sweet personality,” Brennaman stated. “[She] was a friend to all and was very motherly, especially to our Yorkie.”

In late October 2017, not long after Gracie’s 12th birthday, Brennaman noticed she was drastically slowing down. After a vet trip plus plenty of tests and X-rays revealed that she had aggressive lymphoma.

Gracie spent most of her remaining days on the cold porch,” Brennaman said. “I think part of it gave her relief but, in reality, she was saying goodbye to her territory and to all of her friends in her yard.”

And, Baby Grey was diligently by her side.

Baby Grey came to see her several times in her last days and, while there was no tomato eating, the two just laid there to be with each other,” she said. “They had that kind of connection where nothing needed to be said or done. They just wanted to be with each other.”

Gracie passed away in November 2017, less than a month after her cancer diagnosis. And while the little dog’s death was hard on everyone, Baby Grey, in particular, seemed to have difficulty with it, as she continues her special little vigil for her friend.

Since Gracie’s death, several times a week, Baby Grey will come to our porch,” Brennaman said. “She will first come right up to the door and look in for Gracie. I don’t know how long she waits, sometimes she’ll wait for 20 minutes and then she will walk away to the porch where she will sit a while before she eventually lays down and sunbathes.”