Said moggie is also a needy insomniac who keeps Haines, 44, up at night, but the former linchpin of Nineties indie act The Auteurs bears no malice.
When Murray was sent the script for a CGI comedy starring the lazy, heavy-lidded cartoon moggie, Garfield, he told American GQ he saw the name of Joel Cohen and assumed it meant the Oscar-winning brother of Ethan.
And look at that moggie on the cover!
In this clip, the cat has the upper paw as the moggie puts the brakes on a pooch's attempts to go for a wander.
Crucially the Highland wildcat is a member of the first of these subspecies while the domestic moggie that sleeps on your sofa and squawks for food in your kitchen is a member of the Middle Eastern subspecies.
I'm too young to have visited the Scala, but old enough to get nostalgically fired up about the idea of a pre-internet fleapit-cum-temple to the pagan gods of cinema that, for 50p annual membership, might decide to serve up a double-bill of Evil Dead 2 and Felix the Cat cartoons in tribute to the venue's recently deceased moggie (apparently a Sam Raimi fan.
The fearless moggie saves the youngster from even more serious injury.
Ulysses, the moggie in the Coens' Inside Llewyn Davis (in fact "four to six" animals were used, according to Ethan Coen) carries much of the story.
He adds that the moggie, which summons to mind the ginger cat in Breakfast at Tiffany's (made in 1961, the year Inside Llewyn Davis is set), was "not easy to direct" and the whole thing was "a pain in the ass".
The average annual premium for a 10-year-old moggie on the Essential plan is £106 and £146 on Premier.
The majority of owners advertising on the site are doing so because they want someone to look after their pets: in Kensington for example, you'll have to feed Arthur the cat twice a day, and in Richmond Teazel (a one-year old moggie) and some fish need looking after.
