Some people like cats but can’t adopt them permanently. If that’s your situation, consider the next best alternative and foster a cat instead. By fostering a cat, you can have a cat in your home and help teach the cat social skills to fit in with a forever home in the future.
During the current coronavirus pandemic, many people are fostering cats so they’ll have companionship until they have to go back to work or school. Of course once you foster a cat, you could just fall in love with it and keep it, which is perfectly fine as well.