My cat is afraid of bos

My cat walks into my room and I wanted to see see if he would like to be my familiar(I've heard that you can tell if your cat wants to be your familiar if they act like they want to participate your magick ) so I pull out by Bos/grimoire and he jumps up, makes a distressed sound as walks away. Just the other day he sniffed the doorway and got scared. What does this mean?

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A familiar (or familiar spirit or familiar animal) is an animal-shaped spirit or minor demon believed to serve a witch or magician as domestic servant, spy and companion, in addition to helping to bewitch enemies or to divine information.

You see, I've heard that before. But I've also heard the opposite with many claiming that they have physical familiars. So I've been kinda in between of knowing what to believe about it. So, I try to look at many sources

And look at paragraphs 4 and 5 on the website. It says it can have a vessel such as a cat(or a person as paragraph 5 states)

Familiars are not pets.
Whoever told you they are, is misleading you.

Thank you for telling me everyone. There seems to be a lot of confusion when it comes to magick

As already stated above; familiars are spirits that often times resemble animals but are not actual animals.

The person who told you that must have gotten too excited of the idea of having a familiar and misunderstood what they really are.

While animals can be trained to do tricks, accompanying you in your practice is a different story. They have good senses that allows them to notice what the human eyes may not, but that is just it.

I am not going to bother to restate the Familiar fact, it's been said enough.

Now, 'Why is my cat having a fit when I take my book out?' could be several reasons, the most likely could be the smell of the book - if you've been around a lot of incense etc some cats don't like it and become distressed at the scent.
Could be perhaps they have noticed the shifts in your body, the subtle movements etc that you go through when you're working with your book (Body language)
Now, in terms of the Occult/Paganism/Magic/Whatever else you want to call it, there is a long held belief that animals can see more than we do - they feel the vibrations of the world around them - so perhaps as one stretch as to why could be the lovely fact that your cat has noticed 'shapes or something' around your book or around you when you get involved with your magic - what I mean is that people believe that cats, dogs etc can percieve spirits (This is to explain why dogs bark at nothing, or cats get skittish and run off in a hurry for no known reason that we can see/observe)

Ya, there was no incense in my home or anything. And it could have been micromovements. But it might be because I've tried to make a sigil to protect my book from things such as people taking a peep into it. Also, since I have no other place to put it, I put my tarot cards(hand made) in there.