The general life expectancy of an indoor cat is between 14 and 20 years. The cat with the melodious name Creme Puff lived to be a proud 38 years old! In cat years, this amounts to about 169 years. This makes Creme Puff the oldest cat in the world and she is in the Guinness Book of Records 2007. She lived in Austin, Texas.

Creme Puff was born on 3 August 1967 and lived until 2005.