Kristine Carbone would put spice into anyone's day.

She loved baking and cooking, and was always ready to whip something up for her friends, or even for those she did not know.

Every Friday, Carbone, 38, would send her legendary goodies to Brookfield Engineering, where her boyfriend, Claude Schlieff, worked. "She would get e-mails that said, 'We haven't met you yet, but we love you. Keep the cookies coming,"' her sister, Patti Carbone, told The Providence Journal.

Kristine Carbone, of Taunton, Mass., was a salesperson at Heritage Salmon Co. in Canton, Mass.

Co-worker Marianne Sheehan said it's still difficult to walk by Carbone's desk, which holds stuffed animals, cards and photographs of her boyfriend and her cat, Mooy.

"She loved that cat; she had pictures of him up all over," Sheehan said. Carbone had a second cat, Frito, whom she rescued from a factory, where he was born.

"She'd lift everyone's spirits when they were down; it's just the way she was," Sheehan said.

"She believed in angels," Patti Carbone said.