Can cats suffer from separation anxiety like dogs?

Yes, cats can develop separation anxiety. What I've read suggests some of the same behavior therapy that's used for dogs to treat this, such as ignoring the cat for some time before you leave and when you get home. One of my cats has this problem to a slight degree. If you do a search for separation anxiety in cats, there's a lot of information out there.

I do not know about the medical terminology or seriousness of this sort of thing, but cats definitely can and do miss people that leave them, and feel myriad other emotions. I have one cat who, for a long time, waited for me at the door every day (as has been witnessed by other people who lived in my house,) when I would leave, and she would cry and not eat until I returned. She would also sleep with me every night, have to be in the bathroom when I would bathe or shower, and was generally over-attached.

She only got over this after she and I had a separation of several months, in which she lived with other people and I wasn't around at all, and I heard that for a few weeks, she was very depressed about it. She's still attached to me, but she doesn't focus on my absence constantly when I'm not around, now.

A similar thing happened to my grandmother's cat. One of her dogs had to have surgery so my uncle was cat sitting at his house for about a week while the dog was wearing the dog was busy recuperating. After my uncle came home from work the cat attacked him as if the cat had never met him before (and attack means claws out and bleeding victim). So I think it is certainly a possibility. Similar to my grandmother's cat. Could easily be separation anxiety.

Cats get attached to the home but not to humans. Not very much.

If you were to leave for two months, your cat would hardly notice you when you came back.

That is not to say that they are bad, just that they are very independent and can cope without us much better than dogs do.

He just loves you and misses you , just give him lots of attention when you can, and leave him with toys when you can't, don't give him away , then he will really miss you!