Cat café "Cats Republic" in Saint Petersburg, Russia A cat café is a theme café whose attraction is cats who can be watched and played with.[1] Patrons pay a cover fee, generally hourly, and thus cat cafés can be seen as a form of supervised indoor pet rental. The world's first cat café, "Cat Flower Garden" (貓花園[2]), opened in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1998 and eventually became a global tourist destinat