Cats are nice. You need good humour with them and they do not try to lick your a** like dogs. Instead they think your job is to serve them. But they do show affection to you if they think you deserve it
I had a list of famous cat haters and cat lovers in some book. The hater list was full of dictators and other lunatics. The cat lovers were usually intellectuals. No wonder really. My cat got really hurt when you tried to control its behaviour to your liking (e.g lifted it away from your chair where you wanted to sit).