Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Oda al Gato (Ode to the Cat) is a poem by the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, Pablo Neruda from his book "Navegaciones y regresos" (Voyages and Homecomings) that was first published in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Losado in 1959. The ode that celebrates the obscure nature of cats has been translated by many scholars including Ken Krabbenhoft.