User blog comment:LazyCat zzz/Puss in Boots/@comment-32751919-20190612152602/@comment-34364075-20190612201818

A bit ambiguous. It was first written in Italian, but popped up in French a few decades later. Oh, and the Wikipedia also mentioned it was included in a collection called Mother Goose Tales (strong Nursery Rhyme vibes there).

I can read neither language, and the untampered original versions are nowhere to be found anyway so it's up for debate. The English versions seem to use masculine pronouns for Puss though.