Is Step the same as an Impulse + 1/s?
The problem is that you can't use a Dirac delta impulse as an input, which would be the theoretically correct thing to do. Since you only have a discrete impulse, which has some finite value, and since Simulink probably uses something like a zero-order hold to make a continuous-time signal out of that impulse you actually use two different input signals: a step and a smoothed step.