Holly was supposed to be a rescue dog.
She became management.

Adopted from a shelter in 2014, Holly Elizabeth Boice arrived as an early Christmas present and quickly made herself central to the household. She monitored the kitchen, negotiated couch law, supervised family routines, and treated cheese as both a food group and a legal entitlement.

But HOLLY is not only a book about the funny things a Labrador did. It is a memoir about what happens when a dog becomes part of the structure of a family—the ordinary days, the hard seasons, the aging, the grief, and the memories that remain.

Told with humor, honesty, and love, this is the story of one rescued yellow Labrador who was never perfect, never subtle, and never quite as unauthorized as she appeared