As my vet told me “outside cats live short violent lives!”
If you love your cat and want to keep it, get a littler box and keep it inside.
We’ve got a 21 y/o cat. It spent its first 15 years exclusively outside...and transitioned into full time indoors now. During that transition period, it was miserable - begging to go outside.
We have a much younger cat, who will come inside to eat and use the litter box (for some reason won’t go outside), and will sit by the door for hours, waiting for a chance to go out again.
Some cats like the adventure - a house is like a prison to them.