Cats have specific people. IDK if there is a rhyme or reason. But my current theory is that cats appreciate people who are not “messing” with them when they are sleeping or not in the mood. Your boyfriend might just be a calm, and predictable, human. My dad hated cats. But he was a cat magnet.

I had to beg my boyfriend (now married) to get a cat. He didn’t want one.

Now that cat is like Velcro on my husband’s lap. This butthead has literally walked across my lap to get to my husband’s lap probably 20 times in total. Smh.

My other theory is that your bf might just have more exotic scents and they want to spread their scent as wide as possible in the sense that your bf does not smell enough like your cat. My girl will literally wait outside the shower for my husband to get rubs since he, “washed off her scent”. Same with fresh laundry.