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Cats are dumb.
They're reading into this too much.
First of all, it's a nursing home. So that alone makes it a bit easier than most places to predict that someone is going to die within hours or days.
Second, it's entirely possible that the people who were near death were treating the cat with extra kindness, knowing themselves that they weren't long for this world.
...or, perhaps, the cat was able to get more table scraps from these patients because, you know, maybe they lost their own appetites while in the throes of death.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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