diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8985f673..b964782f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## master (unreleased)
 
+* [#285](https://github.com/clojure-emacs/orchard/issues/285): **BREAKING:** Remove special handling of Boot classpath.
+
 ## 0.26.3 (2024-08-14)
 
 * [#282](https://github.com/clojure-emacs/orchard/issues/282): Inspector: don't crash when inspecting internal classes.
diff --git a/src/orchard/info.clj b/src/orchard/info.clj
index 1bfe3ea9..9a8b474b 100644
--- a/src/orchard/info.clj
+++ b/src/orchard/info.clj
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
    [orchard.cljs.analysis :as cljs-ana]
    [orchard.cljs.meta :as cljs-meta]
    [orchard.java :as java]
-   [orchard.java.classpath :as cp]
    [orchard.java.resource :as resource]
    [orchard.meta :as m]
    [orchard.misc :as misc]))
@@ -158,8 +157,7 @@
      meta
 
      (merge (when-let [file-path (:file meta)]
-              {:file (cond-> file-path
-                       (misc/boot-project?) cp/classpath-file-relative-path)})))))
+              {:file file-path})))))
 
 (defn info
   "Provide the info map for the input ns and sym.
diff --git a/src/orchard/java/classpath.clj b/src/orchard/java/classpath.clj
index 4bebbbc2..9124ad4b 100644
--- a/src/orchard/java/classpath.clj
+++ b/src/orchard/java/classpath.clj
@@ -1,17 +1,13 @@
 (ns orchard.java.classpath
   "Classpath access and modification utilities.
 
-  Provides an alternative to the java.classpath contrib library.
-  The library is Boot-aware, meaning it takes into account the
-  classpath manipulation magic, performed by the Boot build tool."
+  Provides an alternative to the java.classpath contrib library."
   (:require
    [clojure.java.io :as io]
-   [clojure.string :as string]
    [orchard.misc :as misc])
   (:import
    (java.io File)
-   (java.net URI URL URLClassLoader)
-   (java.nio.file Paths)
+   (java.net URL URLClassLoader)
    (java.util.jar JarEntry JarFile)))
 
 ;;; Classloaders
@@ -97,48 +93,3 @@
               (file-seq f))
             (filter #(not (.isDirectory ^File %)))
             (map #(.getPath (.relativize (.toURI url) (.toURI ^File %)))))))))
-
-;;; Boot support - previously part of cider-nrepl
-;;
-;; The Boot build tool stores files in a temporary directory, so
-;; we have to do a bit of work to figure out where the real resources are.
-
-(defn boot-classloader
-  "Creates a class-loader that knows original source files paths in Boot project."
-  []
-  (let [class-path (System/getProperty "fake.class.path")
-        dir-separator (System/getProperty "file.separator")
-        paths (string/split class-path (re-pattern (System/getProperty "path.separator")))
-        urls (map
-              (fn [path]
-                (let [url (if (re-find #".jar$" path)
-                            (str "file:" path)
-                            (str "file:" path dir-separator))]
-                  (.toURL (URI. url))))
-              paths)]
-    ;; TODO: Figure out how to add the JDK sources here
-    (new java.net.URLClassLoader (into-array java.net.URL urls))))
-
-(defn boot-aware-classloader
-  []
-  (if (misc/boot-project?)
-    (boot-classloader)
-    (context-classloader)))
-
-(defn classpath-file-relative-path
-  "Boot stores files in a temporary directory & ClojureScript stores
-  the :file metadata location absolutely instead of relatively to the
-  classpath. This means when doing jump to source in Boot &
-  ClojureScript, you end up at the temp file.  This code attempts to
-  find the classpath-relative location of the file, so that it can be
-  opened correctly."
-  [s]
-  (let [path (Paths/get s (into-array String []))
-        path-count (.getNameCount path)]
-    (or (first
-         (sequence
-          (comp (map #(.subpath path % path-count))
-                (map str)
-                (filter io/resource))
-          (range path-count)))
-        s)))
diff --git a/src/orchard/java/resource.clj b/src/orchard/java/resource.clj
index 4622365a..1dd79be2 100644
--- a/src/orchard/java/resource.clj
+++ b/src/orchard/java/resource.clj
@@ -37,10 +37,10 @@
                     :url (io/as-url file)})))
           (remove #(.startsWith ^String (:relpath %) "META-INF/"))
           (remove #(re-matches #".*\.(clj[cs]?|java|class)" (:relpath %)))))
-   (filter (memfn ^File isDirectory) (map io/as-file (cp/classpath (cp/boot-aware-classloader))))))
+   (filter (memfn ^File isDirectory) (map io/as-file (cp/classpath (cp/context-classloader))))))
 
 (defn resource-full-path ^URL [relative-path]
-  (io/resource relative-path (cp/boot-aware-classloader)))
+  (io/resource relative-path (cp/context-classloader)))
 
 (defn resource-path-tuple
   "If it's a resource, return a tuple of the relative path and the full
diff --git a/src/orchard/misc.clj b/src/orchard/misc.clj
index c7b10a98..5066ca62 100644
--- a/src/orchard/misc.clj
+++ b/src/orchard/misc.clj
@@ -9,20 +9,6 @@
 (defn os-windows? []
   (.startsWith (System/getProperty "os.name") "Windows"))
 
-(defn boot-fake-classpath
-  "Retrieve Boot's fake classpath.
-  When using Boot, fake.class.path contains the original directories with source
-  files, which makes it way more useful than the real classpath.
-  See https://github.com/boot-clj/boot/issues/249 for details."
-  []
-  (System/getProperty "fake.class.path"))
-
-(defn boot-project?
-  "Check whether we're dealing with a Boot project.
-  We figure this by checking for the presence of Boot's fake classpath."
-  []
-  (not (nil? (boot-fake-classpath))))
-
 (defn url?
   "Check whether the argument is an url"
   [u]
diff --git a/test/orchard/info_test.clj b/test/orchard/info_test.clj
index c2728cc8..2f8ccc38 100644
--- a/test/orchard/info_test.clj
+++ b/test/orchard/info_test.clj
@@ -454,17 +454,10 @@
                      :doc "catch-clause => (catch classname name expr*)\n  finally-clause => (finally expr*)\n\n  Catches and handles Java exceptions.",
                      :name finally,
                      :special-form true,
-                     :url "https://clojure.org/special_forms#finally"}]
-      (testing "- boot project"
-        (with-redefs [orchard.misc/boot-project? (constantly true)]
-          (let [i (info/info* params)]
-            (is (= expected (select-keys i [:ns :name :doc :forms :special-form :url])))
-            (is (nil? (:file i))))))
-
-      (testing "- no boot project"
-        (let [i (info/info* params)]
-          (is (= expected (select-keys i [:ns :name :doc :forms :special-form :url])))
-          (is (nil? (:file i))))))))
+                     :url "https://clojure.org/special_forms#finally"}
+          i (info/info* params)]
+      (is (= expected (select-keys i [:ns :name :doc :forms :special-form :url])))
+      (is (nil? (:file i))))))
 
 (deftest file-resolution-no-defs-issue-75-test
   (testing "File resolves, issue #75"
@@ -721,20 +714,6 @@
                (info/normalize-params)
                (select-keys [:ns :unqualified-sym]))))))
 
-(deftest boot-file-resolution-test
-  ;; this checks the files on the classpath soo you need the test-resources
-  ;; and specifically test-resources/orchard/test_ns.cljc
-  ;;
-  ;; Note that :file in :meta is left untouched
-  (when cljs-available?
-    (with-redefs [orchard.misc/boot-project? (constantly true)]
-      (is (= '{:ns orchard.test-ns
-               :name x
-               :file "orchard/test_ns.cljc"}
-             (-> (merge @*cljs-params* '{:ns orchard.test-ns :sym x})
-                 (info/info*)
-                 (select-keys [:ns :name :file])))))))
-
 (deftest indirect-vars-cljs
   (when cljs-available?
     (testing "Uses logic from `merge-meta-for-indirect-var-cljs`"