I had recently lost a blue-point siamese named Jack. I was quite upset about it, but not ready for a new cat. When I went to pick up Jack's ashes, there was an abandoned Siamese cat with her two kittens that had been brought to the vet. A few days later, an abandoned kitten needed a foster mother, and was placed with the litter. I adopted the mother, and named her Zoe, which means 'life'.