how spoke the cat came to be.

I'm a crossword puzzle junkie and i do them in pen. The clue on this particular day was "spoke the cat" and I know I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I was thinking who the hell is spoke the cat. I thought perhaps he was some sort of cartoon character but I couldn't think of which one when it slowly dawned on me that the answer was "meow", as in what the cat spoke. Not to be daunted by my idiocy, I decided to turn spoke the cat into a character by which I could spout my opinions. Spoke the cat has become his own entity. From here on out, you can blame him.