Because you reported feeling lonely. And yet you have a cat. Usually, people who have pets do not report being as lonely as single people who do not have pets. Pets are very important to humans, and even hospitals bring pets to cheer up their patients, as do hospices and senior housing establishments (and, they have been doing it for years, so it is not a new trend, and, therefore, I assumed that it would be common knowledge).

Since it was strange that you reported being as lonely as you did, and yet, you have a cat, I assumed that, perhaps, you feed your cat dry food, and, therefore, you have no ritual of breakfast and supper for the cat, and, instead, you just supply the dry pellets and the cat has access to them 24/7, and there is no ritual and no special time.

So I suggested to you that if you change that (which would also benefit the cat, and, although it is admittedly more expensive, the veterinary bills stemming from feeding dry food would eventually cost money as well), and, instead, develop a ritual, then your cat would greet you when you wake up in the morning, and, greet you again when you come back from work, and, as a result, you would not feel as lonely as you do now.

If you for some reason do not relate to that, I suggest you reread the story by Rudyard Kipling, from his series called Just So Stories, which you must have read when you were a child, as it addresses the importance of the relationship between the Woman and the Cat in full.

"The Cat that Walked by Himself" | Just So Stories | Rudyard Kipling | Lit2Go ETC