diff --git a/scrapy/utils/boto.py b/scrapy/utils/boto.py
index fd6b22b88..421ab2f7e 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/boto.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/boto.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 """Boto/botocore helpers"""
 
+from __future__ import absolute_import
 import six
 
 from scrapy.exceptions import NotConfigured