PEDIGREE Her official name, as registered in the Associazione Nazionale Felina Italiana , was Orontea del Poggio Imperiale. She was a Chocolate Point Birman (Sacred Cat of Burma in English, Heilige Birma in German, and Sacro di Birmania in Italian). Like so many cats, Orontea had numerous other, unofficial names: Téa for short, T! for shorter, Mamma T One Time, The Meisterin, Beauty Queen (which she was), Devil Kitty, Marlon’s Girl, Sweetie Girl, Beauty Girl, and Best One (except for the other two kitties). POGGIBONSI Téa was born in a litter of four at Poggio Imperiale, a cattery in Stefania’s home in Poggibonsi, a Tuscan hill town between Florence and Siena. Téa ’s mother Galy was a Blue Point Birman also born in Italy, and her father Fiorucci was a Chocolate Point Birman born in Sweden. According to the Italian Feline Association, cats born in 2008 were required to have names beginning with O. Stefania named this litter after o...
