A question about Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

>“I don’t know,” the boy said. “All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.”

“I can remember it,” the old man said. “I’ll waken you in time.”

“I do not like for him to waken me. It is as though I were inferior.”

What does ‘him’ in the last sentence mean? It means any other adults or something else ?

I don’t understand and it is strange for me.

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by huanyerui