San Nicolás saw him born on December 9, 1928. He was soon taken to Madruga where he spent his childhood in the grandparents' house, under the economic protection of the mother who was a dressmaker.
As a teenager, he entered the Second Secondary School, in the municipality of Güines, where he attended the first year. He moved then to the house of an aunt in Havana, and he obtained a Bachelor's degree after studying four years at the Institute number 1, in that city.
The lively young man worked in several places; particularly in the agency Frigidaire, he organized the union and won the sympathy and respect of his colleagues, and at the same time the hatred of the administration, which left him unemployed. A new pilgrimage in search of where to earn his livelihood led him to a small agency in the municipality of Diez de Octubre.
When he learned of Fulgencio Batista's coup d'etat on March 10, 1952, he went to the University of Havana and, along with other revolutionaries, waited in vain for the promised weapons to arrive.
That same year, also there in the University Hill, in the act of remembrance for the Execution of medical students, on November 27, 1871, Jesus Montané introduced him to who would be his girlfriend, Haydée Santamaría.
At the conclusion of the commemoration, where Melba Hernández and Elda Pérez were also present, they went to the house of the Santamaría brothers, on 25th street between O and P, in El Vedado, there was the young Abel.
Boris Luis Santacoloma summoned the dictator Fulgencio Batista. A month after the military coup of March 10, 1952, he personally hands him a letter where the young man demanded that Batista publicly admit that his famous Kuquine estate was the product of misappropriation and theft, characteristic of the tyrant's previous presidential term from 1940 to 44. So openly and bravely he criticized the oppressive regime.
This young man identified very quickly with the revolutionary efforts of those who dreamed of the bright future for Cuba; He was then involved in the organization of what became the small engine that propelled the great motor of the Revolution. Tireless, simple and with total dedication to the cause of justice and freedom, he did more than what was asked of him and followed without hesitation the young lawyer Fidel Castro.
On July 26, 1953, in the assault on the Moncada Barracks, the trade union leader could have left the action alive. Lost the surprise factor and before the unequal combat waged between the revolutionaries and the soldiers in the second military fortress of Cuba, Fidel ordered the withdrawal to avoid the immolation of the assailants.
He prepared to carry out the order, but when he went in search of the comrades who were still inside the Moncada barracks, he was captured by the guards. Boris Luis was cowardly murdered when Batista's killers realized that, despite the terrible tortures, the young man would never betray his companions.
His companions say that he fought hard on the walls of the Moncada Barracks and when Fidel gave the order to withdraw, he withdrew without difficulty. He went to the Saturnino Lora hospital, looking for Haydée, Melba and to find out what had happened there.
He was arrested; later it was learned that together with Abel Santamaría, the two were tortured and killed.
Boris Luis Santa Coloma is the pride of Mayabeque, he is included in the beautiful poetic definition of Indio Nabori: "But they were not all, all Cubans masked, indifferent. There were Cubans with a burning star in their hands, open breasts, bare the fronts. "
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