RALEIGH, N.C.—A cat named Hemi, who vanished without a trace in 2011 and reappeared just as mysteriously last week, will soon make a jet flight halfway across the country to rejoin the family that never stopped missing him.
“It’s pretty crazy,” said Jennifer Connell, who adopted Hemi in 2009 in North Carolina, but now lives in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Hemi was a kitten when Jennifer and her Marine husband, Robert, found him curled up on their car’s engine block at their home in Havelock near Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station. They weren’t going to keep him, but then they fell in love with the gray kitten with an unusual curl at the tips of his ears. His time under the car’s hood won him the name Hemi.
