Jonesy

Have you ever seen the movie "Alien" or "Aliens"? In said movie, Ellen Ripley is captain on a space freighter that follows up on a distress beacon signal on some planetoid and has their ship infected with an Alien. 

On the ship, there is also a cat named Jones or Jonesy, as the crew likes to call him.

He and Ripley are the sole survivors of the first movie and he can be seen again in the second movie.

Why I ask this? Well, in early 2022, I met a red cat that looked just like him near my neighbors yard. I thought he belongs to her, but she told me he doesn't, he just likes to come to her house and that the real owner doesn't seem to care that much about him.

He is a very, very affectionate (male) cat who just seems to be like me and doesn't like to be lonely and loves to cuddle. 

After seeing him a couple of times and even inviting him in my apartment once in early 2022, I didn't see him for a couple of months in until late September. Since then, I ran into him more often again and his stays became longer and longer. I liked having him there because it always feels good to have company, even feline. 

But as his stays become longer and longer and he often sleeps there, I also worry how to feed him or where he can do his "business". 

One could argue that he only visits me because I started to feed him, but I actually don't have much cat food to give and he stays, even if I refuse to feed him or have nothing (although I always feel sad if he meows sadly, he surely knows how to push my buttons). 

Since I will fly to Indonesia with my mother in 8 days, I wonder if he will be ok while we are gone. I noticed he seems to sit under my father's car or spend his night in our yard if I didn't find him before going to sleep. And I wouldn't want him to freeze or suffer because of me :(. 

He truly is a good and kind cat who just seems to need a lot of TLC, just like most of us...maybe that's why he is special to me?