KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) – Downtown Kingsport will soon have a place for people to play with cats and potentially find a new furry friend as the Boops and Beans Cat Cafe prepares to open.
For months, April Carder and her husband have worked to bring Boops and Beans to the Tri-Cities. The idea for the business came from something the Carders were already doing.
“The cat cafe is something that I’ve been thinking about for years,” Carder said. “And then it was kind of a natural kind of development after my husband and I started fostering cats at Petworks at our home. So we basically just made it even bigger and upped the scale and brought it downtown into this building.”…