A little light literary sacrilege.

Actual historical note: Johnson was the British Enlightenment's greatest man of letters, Boswell his long-term friend and biographer. History does not record that they were anything more than that, and I doubt Johnson would really stand for any such immorality, but I'd infer from the more-than-worshipful tone of his Life of Samuel Johnson that Boswell was pretty much in love with him. So this is perhaps a daydream of his.