Others will be able to answer your specific question -- I don't know.
The only thing I can say from my own experience is that while some cats prefer (or demand) to live in one-cat households, the one time I had just one cat, he did much, much better being left alone even for the length of a standard workday followed by a stop at a grocery store once I added a second cat to the household.
When you say you're "often" away for 3 days at a time and occasionally more, how often do you mean? Once and sometimes twice a month? Once or twice a fortnight? More? Less?
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The only thing I can say from my own experience is that while some cats prefer (or demand) to live in one-cat households, the one time I had just one cat, he did much, much better being left alone even for the length of a standard workday followed by a stop at a grocery store once I added a second cat to the household.
When you say you're "often" away for 3 days at a time and occasionally more, how often do you mean? Once and sometimes twice a month? Once or twice a fortnight? More? Less?