Knitting themselves between your ankles is a cat love language. Ever seen cat friends just walking together, bumping shoulders and tangling tails?
My old kitty loves to walk me around the house, not even to the food bowl. We go from the cat tree to the other cat tree to the window to the screen door and she's yelling and grumbling, hopping up for pets on the trees but she's mainly about walking together.
Appeals to the eldritch gaze