Findus and Petson at their house

Initially, S. Nurdqvist was going to create a story of two old people who are constantly busy with something important, but because of the distracting activities that appear on their way, they eventually forget what they originally strived for. One of these characters was the already middle-aged eccentric Petson. Since for the development of the plot, Petson constantly needed an interlocutor (but it did not have to be a woman), the writer found him in the image of the mischievous, human-speaking kitten Findus.

Petson is an absent-minded middle-aged man living alone in a house on the edge of a small Swedish village in the hinterland. He is a reliable friend and is always right there when Findus gets into trouble (and this happens to him all the time). Petson constantly makes something, invents and improves on his farm. He is the author of all sorts of impossible and strange devices.

Findus in the stories of S. Nurdqvist is a young, cheerful and quick-to-trick cat. He got his strange name from Petson because he got into his owner's house in a box with the inscription "Findus green peas" (Findus is the name of a large Swedish concern that produces food products). Findus is restless and unsettled, he is constantly and "everywhere" and "nowhere". Findus can talk, but he hides it from Petson's fellow villagers.