The pair mated many times (once to the point of suspending shows) but they never produced any offspring. Lolita and Hugo lived together for ten years in what was then known as the 'Whale Bowl', a tank 80-by-35-foot (24 by 11 m) by 20 feet (6 m) deep. They view her as a member of their ' qwe 'lhol mechen,' which translates to 'our relative under the water,' according to former tribal chairman Jeremiah 'Jay' Julius. The Lummi Nation of Washington refer to her as Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut, or, a female orca from an ancestral site in the Penn Cove area of the Salish Sea bioregion. However, given the age difference between the young female and Hugo, she was renamed Lolita after the heroine in Vladimir Nabokov's novel. The young orca was initially called 'Tokitae,' which in the Chinook language means 'Bright day, pretty colors'. Upon arrival at the Seaquarium, Lolita joined a male southern resident orca named Hugo, who was also captured from Puget Sound and had lived in the Seaquarium for two years before her arrival. Miami Seaquarium veterinarian Jesse White purchased Lolita for about $20,000.

Lolita was one of seven young orcas sold to oceanariums and marine mammal parks around the world from a capture of over eighty whales conducted by Ted Griffin and Don Goldsberry, partners in an operation known as Namu, Inc. After Lolita's death, L25 'is the only living whale from the 1960s and 1970s capture era.' Lolita was captured when she was an estimated three to six years old, on August 8, 1970, in the Penn Cove capture in Puget Sound, Washington. She was a close relative of L25 'Ocean Sun', who is the oldest member of the Southern Resident orca community. Lolita was a member of L Pod of the southern resident orcas. However, on August 18, 2023, Miami Seaquarium announced that Lolita had died due to renal failure after exhibiting signs of distress over the prior two days. The Seaquarium announced on March 30, 2023, that Lolita was expected to be returned to her natal waters in the Pacific Northwest and reside in a semi-wild sea-pen in the Salish Sea for the remainder of her life. Lolita was the second-oldest orca in captivity after Corky at SeaWorld San Diego. She had been in captivity at the Miami Seaquarium in the United States since September 24, 1970. Lolita (1964/1967 – August 18, 2023), also known as Tokitae, was a captive female orca from the southern resident orca community. Titular character in Nabokov's novel Lolita Lolita performing at Miami Seaquarium in 1998

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