Laravel Pagination with Get request

I've followed the instructions on the Laravel documentation for pagination with appends([]) however I'm having a little trouble with the persistence of these parameters.

Say for example, I pass home?category=Cars&make=Tesla to my view. What is the best way to paginate with them Get requests?

Right now I've passed the category as a parameter to the view as (where category is the model i've grabbed findOrFail with the request('category');)

$category_name = $category_model->name;

And then in my view it's like so:

But when I go between pages in the pagination, this $category_name value doesn't seem to persist. Whats the recommended way to achieve what I want?

Thanks.

via Chebli Mohamed