WHILE VACATIONING recently in Key West, I decided to visit the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum, a colonial style mansion with lush grounds that’s home to dozens of six and seven-toed cats known as ...

Cat lovers are often enamored by feline “toe beans” — a cat’s cute and tiny jellybean-shaped paw pads. But did you know there are some extra special cats out there with even more toe beans to love?

If you hold tight to the belief that less is more, polydactyl cats—also known as mitten cats and Hemingway cats—may give you a reason (or perhaps several of them) to reconsider your position. That's ...

Q: I've had cats before, but none ever looked like the cat I adopted this week from the shelter. Both of her front paws have the normal four toes — plus three thumbs instead of one. I've never seen a ...