Although no one can belittle the last actions of Boromir before he dies, they hardly show that he had mastered the Ring's temptation. They are the last repentive efforts of a man who fell to the Ring's temptation: and his fall is not from the Ring's overmastering irresistability as is Frodo's in the Sammath Naur, but from his own desire to use the Ring for his own glory. His death does not change this, though it might offer him some last chance of saving grace for his otherwise unnoble character.
There is no real basis to say that the Ring would abandon Boromir as it did Isildur. It might have, but the fact that it happened to Isildur makes it no more likely that it would happen to Boromir. And again, the attitude of Isildur towards the Ring is quite contrary to that of Boromir.
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"He was sent by a mere prudent plan of the angelic Valar or governors; but Authority had taken up this plan and enlarged it, at the moment of its failure."
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