[3] Growing up, she read European writers at school; she has said "African authors were markedly absent, even in libraries".

[4] Boum studied Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Central Africa in Yaoundé, graduating with a master's degree.

She started writing her first novel, Le Clan des femmes, online in blog form.

It was published as a book in 2010 and tells the story of an African woman in the early 20th century based on Boum's memories of her grandmother.

[4] Her fifth novel, Le Rêve du pêcheur (The Fisherman's Dream), was published in 2024 and deals with themes of intergenerational trauma.