Boone received inspiration as a young girl from poet Harriet Monroe, who lived just a few blocks away from her as a child.
In the first few years of their marriage, the couple lived in both New York and Louisville while Garnett Bale finished his residencies.
Bale Boone has had many individual poems published, but her most significant work was The Storm's Eye: A Narrative in Verse Celebrating Cassius Marcellus Clay, Man of Freedom 1810–1903.
[2] Boone spent most her life in Elizabethtown, Kentucky with her first husband, physician Shelby Garnett Bale.
After suffering from an illness for some time, Boone died in Glasgow, Kentucky on Tuesday, October 3, 2002, at the age of 89.
Throughout her life, she served on numerous committees and boards in hopes that more people would have the opportunity to experience the arts in the way that she had.