“When the dog came, he just broke down,” one of Robson’s granddaughters, Ashley Stevens, said Friday morning in a phone interview with The Washington Post. “He took his mask off to kiss him and stuff, and Shep was licking his face.”

Stevens said seeing Shep was her grandfather’s last wish.

Only hours later, she said, he died surrounded by family.

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stevens said her grandfather was able to spend about 30 or 45 minutes with his dog.

She later posted photos and videos of the reunion on Facebook, showing Robson scratch the dog’s head before falling back onto his pillow. She wrote that she was “absolutely amazed and touched” to see her grandfather’s wish come true.

“Still in shock that the wish was granted and they went above and beyond today and made a dying man very happy,” the 22-year-old wrote about the hospital staff members. She added that her grandfather’s charge nurse was “an absolute angel and we are all eternally grateful you don’t know what this meant to our granddad.”