Boon Companion

Your bond with your animal companion is unusually close.

Prerequisite: Animal Companion Class feature

Benefit: The abilities of your animal companion are calculated as though your class were 4 levels higher, to a maximum effective level equal to your character level.

Boon Companion is a feat in .

Strategy
Most non-Druid animal companions have an effective level penalty this will negate. Take it on a Sylvan Sorcerer, Animal Domain Cleric, or Ranger for a full power animal companion. An Animal Domain Inquisitor could use this feat, but Sacred Huntsmaster is superior if you want an animal companion using Inquisitor. This allows a multiclass druid to retain full animal companion power if they multiclass for 4 or fewer levels, but mutliclassing as a druid is a poor idea.