Prophet Muhammad SAW has a cat named Mueeza. Once, when the Prophet was about to take his robe, he found Mueeza sleeping peacefully on his cloak. Not wanting to disturb his beloved animal, the Prophet cut off the slits of the arm that Mueeza slept from his cloak.
When the Prophet returned home, Muezza awoke and ducked prostrate to his master. In return, the Prophet expressed his affection by caressing gently to the tiny body of the cat 3 times. In other activities, whenever the Prophet receives a guest in his house, the prophet always holds the mueeza and puts his finger on it. One of the characteristics of Mueeza that the Prophet loves is that he always meows when he hears the call to prayer, and as if his voice sounds like following the chanting of the call to prayer. To his companions, the Prophet advised to love the pet cat, as if to love his own family.
The punishment for those who hurt these cute animals is very serious, in a hadith of al-Bukhari, narrated about a woman who never feeds her cat, nor does she take her cat to feed herself, the Prophet Muhammad also explains that the punishment for this woman is torture hell.
From Ibn Umar ra that the Messenger of Allah said, "A woman is put into hell because a cat that she tied up and not given food is not even allowed to eat small animals on the floor," (Narrated by Bukhari).
The Prophet stressed in some traditions that the cat was not unclean. Even allowed to perform ablutions using water used cat drink because it is considered sacred.