diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_variable.py b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_variable.py
index 4162fa436798f6c5be6705a327fa1aa40344a692..c1956545f55ad1333124bca03608d35d43cf3fd6 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_variable.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_variable.py
@@ -245,6 +245,34 @@ class TestVariable(unittest.TestCase):
         with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
             res = x[[1.2, 0]]
 
+    def _test_slice_index_list_bool(self, place):
+        data = np.random.rand(2, 3).astype("float32")
+        prog = paddle.static.Program()
+        with paddle.static.program_guard(prog):
+            x = paddle.assign(data)
+            idx0 = [True, False]
+            idx1 = [False, True]
+            idx2 = [False, False]
+            idx3 = [True, True]
+
+            out0 = x[idx0]
+            out1 = x[idx1]
+            out2 = x[idx2]
+            out3 = x[idx3]
+
+        exe = paddle.static.Executor(place)
+        result = exe.run(prog, fetch_list=[out0, out1, out2, out3])
+
+        expected = [data[idx0], data[idx1], data[idx2], data[idx3]]
+
+        self.assertTrue((result[0] == expected[0]).all())
+        self.assertTrue((result[1] == expected[1]).all())
+        self.assertTrue((result[2] == expected[2]).all())
+        self.assertTrue((result[3] == expected[3]).all())
+
+        with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
+            res = x[[True, 0]]
+
     def test_slice(self):
         places = [fluid.CPUPlace()]
         if core.is_compiled_with_cuda():
@@ -255,6 +283,7 @@ class TestVariable(unittest.TestCase):
             self._test_slice_index_tensor(place)
             self._test_slice_index_list(place)
             self._test_slice_index_ellipsis(place)
+            self._test_slice_index_list_bool(place)
 
     def _tostring(self):
         b = default_main_program().current_block()
diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/variable_index.py b/python/paddle/fluid/variable_index.py
index e289ae7f837d5ef939292ef2d5d6d1b6c376c283..c6ddba7feade333b7bc60d66390d1903324b3521 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/variable_index.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/variable_index.py
@@ -140,19 +140,36 @@ def _getitem_impl_(var, item):
             end = MAX_INTEGER if end is None else end
 
         elif isinstance(slice_item, list):
+            is_bool_list = False
             for i in slice_item:
-                if not isinstance(i, int):
-                    raise TypeError("Only support int value in list")
+                if not isinstance(i, (int, bool)):
+                    raise TypeError("Only support int or bool in index list.")
+
+                if isinstance(i, bool):
+                    is_bool_list = True
+                    break
 
             if len(item) != 1:
                 raise IndexError(
                     "When index contains a list, its length must be 1, but received {}".
                     format(len(item)))
 
+            if is_bool_list:
+                new_slice_item = []
+                for idx, ele in enumerate(slice_item):
+                    if not isinstance(ele, bool):
+                        raise TypeError(
+                            "Mixed bool index with other types is not supported."
+                        )
+
+                    if ele is True:
+                        new_slice_item.append(idx)
+                slice_item = new_slice_item
+
             from .layers import assign
             from ..tensor import index_select
 
-            idx = assign(np.array(slice_item))
+            idx = assign(np.array(slice_item).astype("int32"))
             return index_select(var, index=idx, axis=0)
 
         elif isinstance(slice_item, Variable):