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Snowflake

Posted on November 10, 2026

We’ve lost another beloved pet. Snowflake has passed away. She found us on 26 October 2014. We think she was about four already when she appeared on our street in Spain.

I first lay eyes upon Snowy as I was returning home from a morning grocery shop run to Palafrugell — one of those glorious Spanish autumn mornings when it was sunny and mild. As I was coming up our street I lay eyes upon a beautiful white cat sitting on the front steps of a closed up for the season neighbour’s house. I saw her. And she saw me.

Next evening I had finished the evening feeding of my feline crew and was just settling down in my basement atelier when this fluffy white cat comes in through my open garage door and into the atelier where she promptly made herself comfy on my workbench whilst I worked. From that moment Snowy was a constant fixture in the Williams household. She basked in the Spanish sun summer upon summer and slept atop my car in the garage during the strong Tra Montana winds of the winter months. She always remained near, never venturing outside the walls of our garden.

When we moved to our new house three doors down in 2019 we moved Snowy into the bedroom with us until she became accustomed to her new environs. She remained there with the rest of the crew until 2024 when my family returned to the states. We divided up the crew, taking three cats with us to Florida. Snowy moved to my colleagues farm nearby our house in Calella de Palafrugell with the remaining crew. On the farm, Snowy flourished. Loads of space to roam, enclosed by high fences where no dogs dare venture. She carried on with her crew of five, the grumpy matriarch. Age found her. Cancer in her ears. A common aliment for white cats. She didn’t suffer and thankfully had no pain.

She remained the grumpy matriarch until her last day. First to eat on that final sunny and mild Spanish autumn day. None dare touch her dish. She slept that final night in her bed inside Cristian’s cottage before creeping out in the wee hours of the morning to find a quite place in the garden where she lived happily the last two years of her life.

For sixteen years our grumpy cat blessed us with her presence. She inherited matriarch status after Razberry passed away in 2017. A commanding personality, with gorgeous blue eyes and snow-white fur she was always friendly with me, but not always with others.

She passed away in the night of old age on Wednesday, 14 October 2026. She will be missed.

As always. The journey is everything.