In the university introduced by Lesya Ukrainka, he participated in the literary club "Pleyada" where was involved in creation of library of world literature translations.
[1] In the summer of 1891, he assisted the Russian statistician Aleksandr Rusov in a real estate census of the Poltava Governorate where he met with Kharkiv University students Ivan Lypa, Mykola Baizdrenko, and Mykhailo Bazkevych.
[1] Following a five months of imprisonment, Borovyk was exiled from the Kherson Governorate prohibiting him to serve in institutions of the Ministry of National Enlightenment.
[1] In 1910–1911 Borovyk moved to Odesa where he worked in Kherson Governorate zemstvo institutions and was a director of Ukrainian library "Dilo".
[1] In 1918 Borovyk took part in establishment of the Odesa Agricultural Institute (today Odessa State Agrarian University) where he worked until his arrest by the Soviet NKVD and execution.