Sorry everyone, Whitey Bulger was a cat person
Despite the blasphemous subtext that Whitey Bulger preferred canines to felines per this Boston Globe story, in which the mobster claims to have bought a puppy for a little boy while on the run, I argue: ’Tis not the case.
Whitey Bulger was a cat person. End of the story.
In this week’s much-anticipated release Black Mass, we seem small glimmers of a softer side of Bulger. He brings a bouquet of roses to Dakota Johnson’s Lindsey Cyr, appears stark white and visibly shaken at his only child’s death bed, and allows his mom to beat him at game of gin rummy — Bulger almost comes off as an OK guy. Sometimes. That guy might even, I don’t know, randomly buy a pet for a child at the mall, “with mother’s consent,’’ of course.
These character traits can be easily refuted — sociopathic murder may also come to mind after seeing this Friday’s release — but I stand by my word: Bulger loved cats.
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