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I believe it.

My cat Sally is a nurse cat. When one of us humans in the house is sick, she goes on duty. She will stay by the sickie's side night and day, following that person to the bathroom and back to bed, to the kitchen and back to bed, to the tv and back to bed. It is not subtle. It is a cat closely monitoring the movements of a sick human, staying very close, always resting a paw on the sickie's shoulder or hand.

Why she does this is up for debate. It's only when someone is sick. She's an arthritic old thing and otherwise can't be bothered to disturb herself much, except to kill the odd litter of baby bunnies in the garden.