I Am a Cat

WARNING: THE CAT DIES IN THE END! It got drunk, fell in a vase full of water, couldn't get up, and there was just enough water that it couldn't keep its head over the surface, so it drowned. It was a peaceful death in the end, when the cat finally stopped fighting it, but the last minutes... I know, I know, should probably have put the first sentence in spoilers too, but I wish I had known before I decide to read it.

I mean, it's a great book. I agree with all of this:
“Written from 1904 through 1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him.”
Masterly, funny, more in the amusing way sarcasm works rather than laughing out loud, though I did that too. The cat hunting rats was one of those bits.
But I still didn't want to read about the cat dying. :´(