Thomas Blake was the leader of a cat cult.
History
Thomas Blake ran a cat cult who caught Catwoman after she stole a very valuable cat statue. When Batman came to her rescue he was almost eaten by Blake's pet, a ferocious mutant cat (actually, a genetically-engineered clone of a Smilodon or saber-tooth "tiger").
Background Information
In the DC Comics Thomas Blake is a former adventurer and costumed super-villain called the Cat-Man.
He has been a Batman villain since the fifties but recently has become portrayed as either a fat has-been or quasi-reformed mercenary protagonist.