diff --git a/actionview/CHANGELOG.md b/actionview/CHANGELOG.md
index 023067632b..700ca86944 100644
--- a/actionview/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/actionview/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+*   Respect value of `:object` if `:object` is false when rendering.
+
+    Fixes #22260.
+
+    *Yuichiro Kaneko*
+
 *   Generate `week_field` input values using a 1-based index and not a 0-based index
     as per the W3 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/datatypes.html#form.data.week
 
diff --git a/actionview/lib/action_view/renderer/partial_renderer.rb b/actionview/lib/action_view/renderer/partial_renderer.rb
index a78bf0a6e9..bdbf03191a 100644
--- a/actionview/lib/action_view/renderer/partial_renderer.rb
+++ b/actionview/lib/action_view/renderer/partial_renderer.rb
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ module ActionView
         layout = find_template(layout.to_s, @template_keys)
       end
 
-      object ||= locals[as]
+      object = locals[as] if object.nil? # Respect object when object is false
       locals[as] = object if @has_object
 
       content = @template.render(view, locals) do |*name|
diff --git a/actionview/test/fixtures/test/_klass.erb b/actionview/test/fixtures/test/_klass.erb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9936f86001
--- /dev/null
+++ b/actionview/test/fixtures/test/_klass.erb
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<%= klass.class.name %>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/actionview/test/template/render_test.rb b/actionview/test/template/render_test.rb
index 51bc59edae..84aca222b2 100644
--- a/actionview/test/template/render_test.rb
+++ b/actionview/test/template/render_test.rb
@@ -247,6 +247,8 @@ module RenderTestCases
 
   def test_render_object
     assert_equal "Hello: david", @view.render(:partial => "test/customer", :object => Customer.new("david"))
+    assert_equal "FalseClass", @view.render(:partial => "test/klass", :object => false)
+    assert_equal "NilClass", @view.render(:partial => "test/klass", :object => nil)
   end
 
   def test_render_object_with_array