Laravel 5 Redis Connection error Exception when host is down or unreachable

I am using laravel version 5.5.* with Redis for Caching. Everything is working perfectly. My controller codes are look like -

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redis;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

class UserController extends Controller {

    public function showProfile($id) {

        if(!$user = Redis::get('user:profile:'.$id)){
          $user = SomeModelClass::user($id);
        }

        return view('user.profile', ['user' => $user]);
    }

}

But when Redis server is down/unreachable, then below exception occurred.

Predis\Connection\ConnectionException
php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known [tcp://127.0.0.1:6379]

I want to run this method without any exception when Redis host is down/unreachable. Is there any option to do that? Help is appreciable.

via Chebli Mohamed