Ordinarily, I don't presume what persistent earworm might be running through someone else's mind. In this case, however, I'll make an educated guess. My new cat, Collette, has been following me around at home constantly. I don't know what music she heard during the two years before I adopted her, but I suspect that one lyric from Little Peggy March's oldie, "I Will Follow Him," has stuck with her. When she approaches, I start hearing the wheels in her mind zero in on the lyric, "I will follow him, follow him wherever he may go..."
When your cat moves in step with you and backtracks when you backtrack, I think it's plausible that she might have taken that lyric to heart and decided to live by it. If that's the case with Collette, or even if it isn't, I take her tagalong tendencies as a compliment. Moving across the kitchen is next to impossible for me lately, but, under the circumstances, I don't mind.
