Meet Chuvalo the Hemingway cat with opposable thumbs.

"My cat meows until I stop what I'm doing and hold his hand. Then he sits there and purrs," said Chuvalo's human dad via reddit. "He doesn't always meow for it. But he'll come up, and stretch out his paws, or poke my hand with them until I hold them. Definitely weird behaviour for a cat. But I don't mind !"

"My cat meows until I stop what I'm doing and hold his hand. Then he sits there and purrs."

When Chuvalo was little...

His opposable thumb

All grown up today. He loves to sit like this with his mittens all tucked in

Photos via imgur.