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, 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 operas; hence Or...