“You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder … for money.” In The Godfather, Don Corleone rebukes his guest while stroking the head of a gray tabby cat sitting in his lap. In a spontaneous decision, director Francis Ford Coppola placed a stray cat that had wandered onto the set into Marlon Brando’s lap, allowing him to display the Mafia boss’s tenderness and ruthlessness simultaneously. Like the fictional Vito Corleone, some real organized crime figures cared for pets. Their animal companions offer a glimpse into their personal lives, which ...