Do cats get bored?

Our older cat, Tabitha, sleeps a lot because she is getting old and has kidney disease. However, our young Bengal, Phoebe gets bored all the time. However, she usually knows that when we cannot play with her, she needs to run off some of her pent up energy. She will do that for several minutes, and then settle down. Sometimes she will sit in the bathtub and meow until one of us comes in and plays with her.