Her achievements included the Olympic gold won by the Niñas de Oro in Atlanta 1996, Carolina Pascual's silver medal in Barcelona 1992.

[3] In 2006, Boneva participated in the documentary "Las Niñas de Oro" through a telephone call from Bulgaria in which she could talk again with the Olympic champions of Atlanta and which was recorded and included in the final montage of the same.

[7][8] In September 2018 several ex-gymnasts of the Spanish national team travelled to the World Championships in Sofia to meet again with Emilia, also organizing a home dinner in her honour.

The gymnasts who attended the homecoming were Natalia Marín, Vanesa Muñiz, Lorea Elso, Bito Fuster, Montse Martín, Gemma Royo, Nuria Cabanillas, Estíbaliz Martínez, Maider Esparza, Ana Bautista, Carmen Acedo, Carolina Pascual, Rosabel Espinosa and Mónica Ferrández.

"[14] After the premiere of the documentary Las Niñas de Oro in 2013, its director, Carlos Beltrán, stated this in an interview regarding the reception of the film:[4] The pull that this story has and that of people who love it is impressive.

The disdain with which our system relegates these girls to oblivion is something that will have to be reviewed soon, because there is no right.The 1996 5 hoops' routine has been honoured by other gymnasts, such as in the exhibition exercise of the Spanish junior group at Euskalgym 2012 (made up of Paula Gómez, Sara González, Miriam Guerra, Claudia Heredia, Carmen Martínez, Victoria Plaza and Pilar Villanueva), where, as in the 1996 exercise, "America" by Leonard Bernstein was used, in addition to two other songs from the West Side Story soundtrack: "Dance at the Gym" and "Overture".The 2016 Spanish junior group, Mónica Alonso, Victoria Cuadrillero, Clara Esquerdo, Ana Gayán, Alba Polo, Lía Rovira and Sara Salarrullana also honored this exercise at the 20th Anniversary Gold Medal Gala in Atlanta '96, using the same music and emulating some movements from the original routine.

Likewise, the story of the life of Emilia and the Golden Girls in the national rally is present in the fictionalized autobiography Lágrimas por una medalla (2008), written by Tania Lamarca and Cristina Gallo.

Reviews of the milestones of Boneva's career, such as Spain's world title in 1991 or the 1996 Olympic medal, appear in books such as Sports Rhythmic Gymnastics: Aspects and Evolution (1995) by Aurora Fernández del Valle,[15] Golden Spaniards (1999) by Fernando Olmeda and Juan Manuel Gozalo, Entangling in Memory (2015) by Paloma del Rio, or Rhythmic Brushstrokes (2017) by Montse and Manel Martin.