More comfortable GameBoys exist.
If you want your hands further apart: original GBA
If you still want the screen above hand level: hacked 3DS + emulator e.g. mGBA or gameYob
If you want detachable controllers: hacked Switch + emulator e.g. mGBA
Does he not know how to swim? How the hell you live in FL and not know how to swim. I thought they taught that in school there, right after how to smoke a meth pipe.