He is no ordinary cat. His name is longer than his tail, and he has packed nine lives' worth of accolades into three years of eating, napping, stretching, cuddling, playing, bathing, traveling, and being greatly admired.

The cat, formally known as Grand Champion National Winner Divine Design's Leviticus of Naumkeag — call him Levi — is a blue British shorthair. He is mellow, with the confidence and reserve one expects of a winner who also happens to be, in name at least, a Brit.