Booval's Judith-Rae White has been reunited with her cat more than two years after the 2011 floods Judith-Rae White, of Booval, has been reunited with her cat Eddie Boy after he went missing in the 2011 floods. MORE than two and a half years ago best friends Judith-Rae White and Eddie Boy were separated by the 2010/11 floods. Yesterday, "a miracle" reunited the pair. Ms White rushed to the Bellbowrie Veterinary Surgery after receiving the news she had been waiting for since her cat was lost on January 11, 2011. "She said the magic words: 'We've got your cat'," Ms White said. After floodwaters forced the pair out of their Goodna home, the cat was turned away from the Ipswich evacuation centre. Ms White kissed her then nine-year-old goodbye and left him with a friend, secure in the knowledge her buddy was microchipped. Judith-Rae White of Booval, has found her cat "Eddie Boy" after he went missing in the 2011 floods. Picture: Peter Cronin I had him micro-chipped when we left the Shiloh evacuation centre. We were on the street and the first thing I thought was to get him micro-chipped in case anything should happen," she said. Lucky I did because the first night I left him with my friend he escaped. The animal lover rescued the ginger tom as a kitten. He was only a few weeks old when she found him abandoned in a park near her home. After his disappearance a devastated Ms White returned to the Goodna park daily. "At the beginning I went back (to the park) every day calling for him but it became too heartbreaking," she said. Now living at Booval, she had come to the realisation that 50 years of possessions were lost but Ms White never gave up on Eddie Boy. "Of course I cared about my things that were gone, what devastated me the most was losing my cat," she said. I have no children, no family, Eddie Boy was my baby. I always knew in my heart that he was alive. Ms White said Eddie would live the rest of his life on the couch. "This old cat and I are just going to sit around and be happy together," she said. It's a miracle, I will never ever let him out of my sight again. Dr Kyle Brackin, from Bellbowrie Vet, said it was tears all around when Ms White and Eddie Boy were reunited. "I have never seen someone so emotional about being reunited with their pet, it was lovely," he said. Someone must have been looking after him and feeding him, he was in too good health to have been fending for himself.