Can someone elaborate on this proposition about creating manifolds with boundary?

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In Guillemin and Pollack they state:

Proposition. The product of a manifold without boundary, $X$ and a manifold with boundary $Y$ is another manifold with boundary. Furthermore:

$$ \partial(X \times Y) = X \times \partial Y$$

and:

$$ \dim ( X \times Y) = \dim(X) + \dim(Y)$$

The proof goes as follows:

If $U \in R^k$ and $V \in H^l$ are open, then:

$$ U \times V \in R^k \times H^l = H^{k+l} $$

is open. Moreover, if $\phi : U \to X$ and $\psi : V \to Y$ are local parameterizations, so is $\phi \times \psi : U \times V \to X \times Y$.

So, I see that as any local parameterization is in $R^k \times H^l = H^{k+l}$ this implies the $\dim$ is $k + l$, and therefore $\dim(X) + \dim(Y)$, but it is not clear to me why this proof illustrates:

$$\partial (X \times Y) = X \times \partial Y$$

Could someone clarify why $\partial (X \times Y) = X \times \partial Y$? If you need more clarification, please ask.