Pannonica ("Nica") de Koenigswarter

Nica the cat, named after the Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter.

Pannonica ("Nica") de Koenigswarter, also known as the jazz baroness, was a friend and patron to jazz musicians of the bebop era (beginning in the early to mid 1940s). She was especially close to Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.

She also loved cats and had about 30 in her house in New York. 

Pannonica de Koenig

10 December 1913 - 30 November 1988