diff --git a/pandas/core/dtypes/inference.py b/pandas/core/dtypes/inference.py
index 97bffb35c28d9..58da2570015b5 100644
--- a/pandas/core/dtypes/inference.py
+++ b/pandas/core/dtypes/inference.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import numpy as np
 
 from pandas._libs import lib
+from pandas._typing import ArrayLike
 
 is_bool = lib.is_bool
 
@@ -420,3 +421,28 @@ def is_dataclass(item):
         return is_dataclass(item) and not isinstance(item, type)
     except ImportError:
         return False
+
+
+def is_inferred_bool_dtype(arr: ArrayLike) -> bool:
+    """
+    Check if this is a ndarray[bool] or an ndarray[object] of bool objects.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    arr : np.ndarray or ExtensionArray
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    bool
+
+    Notes
+    -----
+    This does not include the special treatment is_bool_dtype uses for
+    Categorical.
+    """
+    dtype = arr.dtype
+    if dtype == np.dtype(bool):
+        return True
+    elif dtype == np.dtype("object"):
+        return lib.is_bool_array(arr.ravel("K"))
+    return False
diff --git a/pandas/core/internals/array_manager.py b/pandas/core/internals/array_manager.py
index 9da019fb2ef95..99a1706c671b1 100644
--- a/pandas/core/internals/array_manager.py
+++ b/pandas/core/internals/array_manager.py
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 )
 from pandas.core.dtypes.common import (
     ensure_int64,
-    is_bool_dtype,
     is_datetime64_ns_dtype,
     is_dtype_equal,
     is_extension_array_dtype,
@@ -50,6 +49,7 @@
     ABCPandasArray,
     ABCSeries,
 )
+from pandas.core.dtypes.inference import is_inferred_bool_dtype
 from pandas.core.dtypes.missing import (
     array_equals,
     isna,
@@ -676,10 +676,7 @@ def get_bool_data(self, copy: bool = False) -> ArrayManager:
         copy : bool, default False
             Whether to copy the blocks
         """
-        return self._get_data_subset(
-            lambda arr: is_bool_dtype(arr.dtype)
-            or (is_object_dtype(arr.dtype) and lib.is_bool_array(arr))
-        )
+        return self._get_data_subset(is_inferred_bool_dtype)
 
     def get_numeric_data(self, copy: bool = False) -> ArrayManager:
         """
diff --git a/pandas/core/internals/blocks.py b/pandas/core/internals/blocks.py
index 32cecec01b8be..97f10207ee555 100644
--- a/pandas/core/internals/blocks.py
+++ b/pandas/core/internals/blocks.py
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
     ABCPandasArray,
     ABCSeries,
 )
+from pandas.core.dtypes.inference import is_inferred_bool_dtype
 from pandas.core.dtypes.missing import (
     is_valid_na_for_dtype,
     isna,
@@ -157,7 +158,6 @@ class Block(PandasObject):
 
     __slots__ = ["_mgr_locs", "values", "ndim"]
     is_numeric = False
-    is_bool = False
     is_object = False
     is_extension = False
     _can_consolidate = True
@@ -230,6 +230,14 @@ def _can_hold_na(self) -> bool:
     def is_categorical(self) -> bool:
         return self._holder is Categorical
 
+    @final
+    @property
+    def is_bool(self) -> bool:
+        """
+        We can be bool if a) we are bool dtype or b) object dtype with bool objects.
+        """
+        return is_inferred_bool_dtype(self.values)
+
     @final
     def external_values(self):
         return external_values(self.values)
@@ -1785,10 +1793,6 @@ def _can_hold_element(self, element: Any) -> bool:
         # "Union[dtype[Any], ExtensionDtype]"; expected "dtype[Any]"
         return can_hold_element(self.dtype, element)  # type: ignore[arg-type]
 
-    @property
-    def is_bool(self):
-        return self.dtype.kind == "b"
-
 
 class NDArrayBackedExtensionBlock(HybridMixin, Block):
     """
@@ -1955,14 +1959,6 @@ class ObjectBlock(Block):
 
     values: np.ndarray
 
-    @property
-    def is_bool(self):
-        """
-        we can be a bool if we have only bool values but are of type
-        object
-        """
-        return lib.is_bool_array(self.values.ravel("K"))
-
     @maybe_split
     def reduce(self, func, ignore_failures: bool = False) -> List[Block]:
         """
diff --git a/pandas/tests/frame/test_reductions.py b/pandas/tests/frame/test_reductions.py
index d24320ad17709..672ab20fb9791 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/frame/test_reductions.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/frame/test_reductions.py
@@ -1163,6 +1163,9 @@ def test_any_all_object_bool_only(self):
         df._consolidate_inplace()
         df["C"] = Series([True, True])
 
+        # Categorical of bools is _not_ considered booly
+        df["D"] = df["C"].astype("category")
+
         # The underlying bug is in DataFrame._get_bool_data, so we check
         #  that while we're here
         res = df._get_bool_data()