Boise is the capital of the U.S. state of Idaho. Boise may also refer to: Boise, Texas Boise, Portland, Oregon Boise City, Oklahoma Boise County, Idaho Boise (CL-47), a light cruiser commissioned in 1938 Boise (SSN-764), a Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine Boise National Forest, a US national forest north and east of the city of Boise, Idaho Boise River People with the surname Reuben P. Boise (1819-1907), former chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court Charles Watson Boise (1884-1964), mining engineer and a sponsor of Louis Leakey See also Boise Cascade, a pulp and paper products company