<human>:  Who is the boatman in the story ‘The Boatman’?
<bot>: The boatman is a character in a short story by the author Franz Kafka. The story is called “The Boatman” and is about a man who is hired to row a boat across a river. The man is very poor, and he is paid only for the number of strokes he makes. After a while, he realizes that he is being paid for every stroke he makes, so he decides to stop rowing.