Dusty Springfield’s elderly cat will live in the lap of luxury for the rest of his life, thanks to a generous provision in the late singer’s will.
Springfield’s last will and testament provides that her 13-year-old pedigree feline, Nicholas:
*Be fed baby food especially imported to Britain from the United States.
*Live in a 7-foot indoor tree house lined with scratch pads and catnip.
*Be serenaded to sleep each night by a stereo system playing his master’s greatest pop hits.
*Have his bed lined with the pillowcase Dusty rested on and the nightgown she wore when she died.
*Be “married” to the female cat of Dusty’s pal.
“It’s what Dusty wanted,” Lee Everett-Alkin, who’s been entrusted to take care of Nicholas, told the Sunday Mirror of London.
Springfield – the British hitmaker behind such ’60s classics as “Son of a Preacher Man” and “Wishin’ and Hopin'” – died last month at 59.
In the months before she succumbed to breast cancer, the husky-voiced pop star worried about the fate of Nicholas, a Californian ragdoll breed she bought as a kitten in Hollywood in 1986.
Terrified he’d be sent to the pound and live his final years in a cage, Springfield wrote Nicholas into her will, giving him to Everett-Alkin, whose 5-year-old English blue breed Purrdie will become Nicholas’ “bride.”
Springfield – who died only two weeks before she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – was a devoted animal-rights activist all her life.