Personally I found the whole interaction extremely off-putting because despite obviously knowing it's Gale's cat due to how much Gale talks about her during the celebration party, throughout the entire interaction the main character is dumb as a brick and cannot recognize her nor even bring up Gale during the conversation.

And even worse was when I went back to camp immediately afterwards hoping to tell Gale about the encounter and see him burst with happiness as he considers tracking her down to bring her to our camp, but of course... nothing to tell about it.

In an RPG it's an extreme NO NO to not have stuff like this connected and fully reacted to, which is why I found it so utterly disappointing that it really bothered me. May as well just delete her from the game and make it any other cat at that point.