A healthy population of European wild cats found on Mount Etna : Elusive European Wildcats Found Hiding Out on Mount Etna
The domestication of the cat in the Middle East probably means we'll never be able to untangle the precise relationships between European, African and Asian Wild Cats. I have to say it wouldn't have surprised me too much if these animals on Sicily had been African Wild Cats.
There are some ancient relics of African origin among lower organisms, but for mammals most are connected to Italian peninsula. only the Sicilian shrew is really a paleoendemic with affinities with the Canary shrew.