I spent some time around them, they knew me and even liked me for some reason. I'd feed them when he was out of town. So they were tangentially my cats, for a little while. He had four.
He could be a dick, but he wasn't a bad guy. I guess he treated me more like a younger brother. He was in college at the time, and we'd get together and play video games and stuff like that. Didn't have a lot of friends my own age.