Maria Beatriz Fernández Passarino

Born in Uruguay, *María Beatriz Fernández Passarino* defines herself as a lifelong learner and self-taught in many aspects of her life. Passionate about communication and strategic marketing, an eternal language learner and student of Argentine Sign Language (LSA), her life story is deeply intertwined with a love for animals. Together with her husband, she built a home where their beloved feline children, Hattori (14 years) and Zatoichi (18 years), were the guardians of their hearts. After their passing — a profound loss that left its mark in tattoos on her arm — life decided to surprise the couple: Cleo arrived on a stormy night and, from that moment on, they were never apart again. Embracing the philosophy of *Kintsugi* — the strength to hold the scars and transform shared pain into beauty — she found in Cleo the divine inspiration for this project. With over 30 years of professional experience in global strategy — fifteen of them at The Walt Disney Company Latin America, working on global franchises across the region — the author united her path of family resilience with the purity of the animal world to create a tender and universal universe. True to her conviction that inclusion begins in language, she has meticulously crafted each edition of this book, translating it into multiple languages and regional variants so that children around the world can feel Cleo as close as their own family. A work born of love, memory and triumph over pain — reminding us that the paw prin

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