diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 5ec4471..9ea7689 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -40,4 +40,4 @@ repos:
             "hypothesis",
             "pytest",
             "numpy",
-          ]
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+          ]
diff --git a/chromadb/api/types.py b/chromadb/api/types.py
index ae22866..8f1eb32 100644
--- a/chromadb/api/types.py
+++ b/chromadb/api/types.py
@@ -126,10 +126,13 @@ def validate_metadata(metadata: Metadata) -> Metadata:
         raise ValueError(f"Expected metadata to be a dict, got {metadata}")
     for key, value in metadata.items():
         if not isinstance(key, str):
-            raise ValueError(f"Expected metadata key to be a str, got {key}")
-        if not isinstance(value, (str, int, float)):
             raise ValueError(
-                f"Expected metadata value to be a str, int, or float, got {value}"
+                f"Expected metadata key to be a str, got {key} which is a {type(key)}"
+            )
+        # isinstance(True, int) evaluates to True, so we need to check for bools separately
+        if not isinstance(value, (str, int, float)) or isinstance(value, bool):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Expected metadata value to be a str, int, or float, got {value} which is a {type(value)}"
             )
     return metadata
 
diff --git a/chromadb/test/property/test_filtering.py b/chromadb/test/property/test_filtering.py
index ac6ec11..08fddb7 100644
--- a/chromadb/test/property/test_filtering.py
+++ b/chromadb/test/property/test_filtering.py
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ def test_filterable_metadata_query(
     api.reset()
     coll = api.create_collection(
         name=collection.name,
-        metadata=collection.metadata,
+        metadata=collection.metadata,  # type: ignore
         embedding_function=collection.embedding_function,
     )
     coll.add(**record_set)
@@ -259,3 +259,20 @@ def test_empty_filter(api: API) -> None:
     assert res["embeddings"] is None
     assert res["distances"] == [[], []]
     assert res["metadatas"] == [[], []]
+
+
+@pytest.mark.xfail(reason="Boolean metadata is not supported yet")
+def test_boolean_metadata(api: API) -> None:
+    """Test that metadata with boolean values is correctly filtered"""
+    api.reset()
+    coll = api.create_collection(name="test")
+
+    test_ids: IDs = ["1", "2", "3"]
+    test_embeddings: Embeddings = [[1, 1], [2, 2], [3, 3]]
+    test_metadatas: Metadatas = [{"test": True}, {"test": False}, {"test": True}]
+
+    coll.add(ids=test_ids, embeddings=test_embeddings, metadatas=test_metadatas)
+
+    res = coll.get(where={"test": True})
+
+    assert res["ids"] == ["1", "3"]
diff --git a/clients/js/src/embeddings/CohereEmbeddingFunction.ts b/clients/js/src/embeddings/CohereEmbeddingFunction.ts
index 847b800..c291a62 100644
--- a/clients/js/src/embeddings/CohereEmbeddingFunction.ts
+++ b/clients/js/src/embeddings/CohereEmbeddingFunction.ts
@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ export class CohereEmbeddingFunction implements IEmbeddingFunction {
         });
         return response.body.embeddings;
     }
-}
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+}
diff --git a/clients/js/src/embeddings/IEmbeddingFunction.ts b/clients/js/src/embeddings/IEmbeddingFunction.ts
index c3ecc50..dcc21ab 100644
--- a/clients/js/src/embeddings/IEmbeddingFunction.ts
+++ b/clients/js/src/embeddings/IEmbeddingFunction.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 export interface IEmbeddingFunction {
     generate(texts: string[]): Promise<number[][]>;
-}
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+}
diff --git a/clients/js/src/embeddings/OpenAIEmbeddingFunction.ts b/clients/js/src/embeddings/OpenAIEmbeddingFunction.ts
index dd1f62a..334a5a0 100644
--- a/clients/js/src/embeddings/OpenAIEmbeddingFunction.ts
+++ b/clients/js/src/embeddings/OpenAIEmbeddingFunction.ts
@@ -45,4 +45,4 @@ export class OpenAIEmbeddingFunction implements IEmbeddingFunction {
         }
         return embeddings;
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/clients/js/src/utils.ts b/clients/js/src/utils.ts
index 744b7af..afca589 100644
--- a/clients/js/src/utils.ts
+++ b/clients/js/src/utils.ts
@@ -62,4 +62,4 @@ export async function handleSuccess(response: Response | string | Count200Respon
         default:
             return repack(response);
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}