A Passion in the desert

At first I thought the novel was about love between men and women, but the novel "A Passion in the desert" is about a French soldier who is isolated in the desert, almost dying and faint in the cave, when he woke up, he found a beast lying beside him. it turned out to be a leopard with blood on his mouth. Fortunately, the leopard was full, and he was not malicious. The soldier originally wanted to kill it with a dagger, then changed his mind and touched the female leopard with a gentle and affectionate action. He not only got along well with it, but also established feelings and played together. However, the soldier was still afraid and ran away while the leopard was asleep, but it was not far away. The Leopard came up. at this time, he had fallen into quicksand and the leopard bit his collar, he was saved. At the end of the story, the soldier killed the leopard by accident. the leopard gently bit his thigh. He thought he was going to eat him and stabbed the beast's neck with a dagger, the leopard looked at him without anger when he struggled. The protagonist of the article talked about this experience and said, "I don't think there is anything like a desert." There is no one there, only God ". What he could not feel in human society, in the desert. I think that's why it's ‘passion’ instead of ‘love’.