LotR -- Book 2 - Chapter 08 - Farewell to Lórien

[HerenIstarion]

While it may have been better for the Company if Faramir had gone instead of Boromir, it wouldn’t have been better for Boromir.

Good and proper. To back you up here, let me quote you Tolkien himself (mouthed by Gandalf, in the chapter still to be discussed, but worthy quote it is):

'You have not said all that you know or guess, Aragorn my friend,' he said quietly. 'Poor Boromir! I could not see what happened to him. It was a sore trial for such a man: a warrior, and a lord of men. Galadriel told me that he was in peril. But he escaped in the end. I am glad. It was not in vain that the young hobbits came with us, if only for Boromir's sake