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The mice can smell the cat and knows to stay away.
When I was a kid we moved into a lovely house where I grew up, it was quite well ventilated, (when a gust of wind hit in a particular way, it would blow sheets of paper of my desk even when all windows and doors were closed), and we had to get mouse traps, these were the old classic type which snapped shut and broke the mouse's neck, we would get a few mice every year.
Then we decided to get a kitten, a lovely completely black kitten with thick but short fur and tuffs on her ears.
We didn't know it at the time but over the next 15-20 years she became a quite accomplished huntress.
And we never had any issues with mice since though one mice that she brought home did escape into a hole inside and we never saw it again, probably because we just after that poured a concreate foundation through the hole.
Not even when we got rid of the water melon my dad had placed in the foundation mold.
Toxoplasmosis will make them walk right up to cats which can confuse the cat. -They catch it from the cat's urine.