How to Initiate Friendship

"I want you to give me lessons in the, I mean, I don't know. What am I initiating these days?" he says. "There was this cat that was living outside of my house and they were helping me decide like, is this feral cat or is this a cat that's like lost? So for a week, I was just trying to build trust with this cat ... Finally got it inside and it died two days later."