What does this description from Sec. 2 of "The Invalid's Story" tell us about the narrator?

"my dearest boyhood friend and schoolmate, John B. Hackett, had died the day before, and that his last utterance had been a desire that I would take his remains home to his poor old father and mother in Wisconsin."

A. The narrator was childhood friends with the man who died.
B. The narrator did not know the man who died at all.
C. The narrator did not have a formal education.