Nice Anime quality and feel to this.

I was thinking more ‘The Journey Home’, that Disney one with the animals. Anime works too. It’s a lovely thoughtful piece.

A few missteps along the way. You repeat the line about him purring. Later you say he sighed in two successive sentences, which could use a rewrite. You also doubled ‘his’ in one sentence.

The capitalizes WAS might look a bit smoother if you type was to make it italics instead.

There’s my editing tidbits for the day. Happy Ficlying!