The story behind a new book's strange dedication to Toast the cat

"The greatest academic acknowledgement I've seen in a while," read the viral tweet of this photo by Jonathan Robbins (@robinshistory). (Jonathan Robins)

Of all the people in Jonathan Saha's life worth dedicating his book to, none of them could match the impact, or lack thereof, of Toast the cat.

Saha's cat "was no help at all," reads the dedication page in Colonizing Animals which recently went viral on Twitter, collecting more than 266,000 likes.