I can write down a few words and make people thousands of miles away, whom I have never met and will never meet, laugh tears of joy and cry tears of true sorrow for people who do not exist and have never existed and never will exist. If that isn’t actual literal magic I don’t know what is.
How long after you lose an animal do you stop having moments when you still expect them to be there? How long did you have them and how long did it take you?
Domestic cats are interesting because they are fully predators but also aware that they are prey so they are good at finding hiding spots. They will squeeze themselves into the farthest darkest corner of whatever structure they find themselves in.