boris seems like a nice name ^.^ I adopted my puppy from a shelter and he was very fearful at first. You just have to leave him be for the first few days. Let him get familier with the house. Then over the span of about 3-4 weeks then you socialize. Maybe try to play games in every room in the house (or every room he is aloud in) so He can get a sense where he can have some play time.
It just takes a little more time with shelter pets ^^.
I changed my dogs name too, the shelter named him maqueen we call him bear :).