„I walk past it ten times a day. Every time I think: there he is.”

Sipke was a fourteen-year-old red Maine Coon, with a weight guests always mentioned and a habit of lying down precisely in the doorway. Since March he is no longer around.

Wilma deliberately did not choose a subdued style. The portrait hangs in the room where his basket stood, in Van Gogh’s colours, and is visible straight down the hallway — on the spot where he was most often in the way.