"A Boy's Best Friend" is a 1975 science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.
It has been collected in The Complete Robot and first appeared in Boys' Life, March 1975.
One day his father decided to bring a real dog from the earth.
However, Jimmy was not happy to get a real dog because he had become greatly attached to Robutt Quoting Asimov himself, "you may find in it (the story) a distant echo of Robbie".
That story, written 35 years before, also involves a relationship between a child and a robot.