Pope Francis: 'He always cooked fantastic paella' The book is based on interviews with Pope Francis by Ms Piqué, 46, who has known him since 2001. The book includes recollections from friends and relatives of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, as he was known before becoming Pope. His nephew and godson recalled the future pontiff using unconventional means to stop him crying as a baby. "My parents told me that when I cried he dipped my dummy in wine or whisky to calm me," said the nephew, also called Jorge. An old friend, Oscar Crespo, said that he and the future pontiff would go out tango dancing as teenagers in the hope of meeting girls. "We used to go dancing at the clubs in the Chacarita district (of Buenos Aires) because there were a lot of girls," he said. Jorge was going out with one of them. But by his mid-teens the future pontiff had decided that he wanted to become a priest and had to end the relationship. Meanwhile, 10 days after Pope Francis hugged and kissed a man whose face and body was covered in tumours, the sufferer of the rare disease described the experience as "like being in Heaven." "I felt like I was in Heaven," the 53-year-old man, named only as Vinicio, told Corriere della Sera newspaper on Monday. My heart was fit to burst. He said no one had ever embraced him in such a way, apart from his aunt, who brought him up, and his sister. Pope Francis took several minutes to comfort the man, who suffers from a rare genetic disease called neurofibromatosis, during a general audience in St Peter's Square earlier this month. "I thought he would never let him go," said the man's aunt, Caterina.