He is the former Minister of Environmental Protection of Ukraine and a former Deputy Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.

Boiko was born on 6 July 1961 in Krasnohirka Holovanivsk Raion to a family of farmers.

He became an electrical engineer, studying at the National Academy of State Administration of the President of Ukraine (2004).

He served as deputy chairman of Verkhovna Rada Committee on Environmental Policy, Management of nature and Chernobyl disaster consequences.

He served on the Management of nature and Chernobyl disaster consequences committee beginning in June 2002 and became the Deputy Head in 2004.