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Leonardo da Vinci's gray tabby leapt through the studio's billowing smoke, leaving behind the master's burning sketches and unfinished canvases. The cat had spent many afternoons curled beside the artist, watching with lazy amber eyes as he perfected the enigmatic smile of the noblewoman's portrait. Now, as flames consumed the workshop where history's greatest inventions and art took form, the muse of many masterpieces collapsed at the threshold, his fourth life claimed by the very inspiration he had helped ignite.