When soldiers found his body, his final note wasn’t about himself, it was for his cat. For three months, drone footage from the front line quietly recorded a rare friendship: a soldier crouched in the rubble, sharing his rations with a stray cat.

Through gunfire and silence, the two were seen together, the man keeping the cat warm in his jacket, the cat pressed close against his chest.

When a massive assault finally claimed the soldier’s life, medics found him where the footage ended. Inside his jacket, they discovered a note:
“I know they are approaching.

I’ll fight for my friend, I’ll do anything to keep him safe. If this takes me, please leave my jacket in my hole, winter is coming and he will come for warmth. P.S. If you can catch him, his favorite food is the blue can.”