That's sweet, but I hope he still wants the quilt after you are finished and give it to him.
I say this because my DD's cat would snuggle between her and the quilt she was handquilting only to leave it totally alone when she bound it. Did it with every one of them.
I think that once she could give him her whole attention he would go back to himself, but he didn't like the competition of the handquilting.