That’s so funny!
My Mishka does a variation of this – he will only eat if I am in the room. If I leave the room while he’s eating – he will follow me meowing to high heavens as if he has not been fed yet…. and then when we come back to the room – he goes back to his food dish. It’s quite the funny scene in the morning when I am getting ready for work – walking in and out of my room with a meowing cat behind me!!!