How do I take a boolean array and create a game board on java GUI

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We have prewritten code that we need to make into a game board in a Java GUI project.

I have created game boards before but I am VERY new to programming and don't want to revert to the way I did it last time.

Our teacher gave us some code for a few classes. The point of the project is to have a 6x6 game board of buttons. There is a button that reveals a fish if it's a fish and one that reveals an "x" if there is not a fish.
She used boolean [][] grid in the GoneFishingModel class but the GoneFishingView is the GUI class and I am not sure how to take a boolean grid from one class and make it into a game board in the GUI GoneFishingView class.
The code so far for each class is below.

**************GoneFishingModel*****************

import java.util.Random;

public class GoneFishingModel
{
	public static int DIMENSION = 6;
	private boolean[][] grid = new boolean[DIMENSION][DIMENSION];
	private int triesRemaining = 30;
	private int fishRemaining = 10;

	public GoneFishingModel()
	{
		Random randomNumberGenerator = new Random();
		for (int fishCounter = 0; fishCounter < fishRemaining; fishCounter++)
		{
			int x, y;
			do
			{
				x = randomNumberGenerator.nextInt(DIMENSION);
				y = randomNumberGenerator.nextInt(DIMENSION);
			} while (grid[x][y]);
			grid[x][y] = true;
		}
	}

	public boolean fishAt(int row, int column)
	{
		boolean foundFish = grid[row][column];
		triesRemaining--;
		if (foundFish)
		{
			fishRemaining--;
		}

		return foundFish;
	}

	public int getTriesRemaining()
	{
		return triesRemaining;
	}

	public int getFishRemaining()
	{
		return fishRemaining;
	}

	public boolean fishWin()
	{
		return triesRemaining == 0 && fishRemaining > 0;
	}

	public boolean playerWins()
	{
		return fishRemaining == 0;
	}
}

***********GoneFishingView********************

import javax.swing.JFrame;

public class GoneFishingView extends JFrame
{

	public GoneFishingView(GoneFishingModel model)
	{
		// TODO

		setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		pack();
		setVisible(true);
	}

	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		new GoneFishingView(new GoneFishingModel());
	}

	public void updateUI()
	{
		// TODO
	}
}

********FishingButton********

import javax.swing.JButton;

public class FishingButton extends JButton
{

	public FishingButton(int row, int column)
	{
		// TODO
	}

}

********FishingButtonListener***********

public class FishingButtonListener
{

	public FishingButtonListener(GoneFishingModel goneFishingModel, GoneFishingView goneFishingView,
			FishingButton fishingButton)
	{
		// TODO
        	}

}

What I have tried:

I tried declaring an array of Buttons IN the GoneFishingView class (as this is how I did my last GUI Treasure Hunt project) but I don't think that is what she wants us to do AND it is not a boolean array grid. I also added the classes EmptyButton (which holds the "x") and EmptyButtonListener. Do I need these two classes on top of the FishingButton Class?
Example of the code here:

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.util.Random;

import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JSlider;
import javax.swing.event.ChangeEvent;
import javax.swing.event.ChangeListener;

public class GoneFishingView extends JFrame
{
	//Declare a new panel to hold contents
    private JPanel panel;
    private GoneFishingModel model;
    private int width = 6;
    private int height = 6;
    private FishingButton [] buttons = new FishingButton[width*height];
    private FishingButton fishingButton;
	public GoneFishingView(GoneFishingModel model)
	{
		// TODO
		this.model = model;
		setTitle("Gone Fishing");
		setSize(800, 500);
		setLayout(new BorderLayout());
		
		//Create a new panel to hold grid
        JPanel gridPanel = new JPanel();
        
        
        //Set the panel to a grid layout, 6 by 6
        gridPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(6, 6));
        //Set border of grid panel
        gridPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.BLUE, 2));
        //add panel and set to center
        add(gridPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        Random random = new Random();
        int counter = 0;
        while(counter < model.getFishRemaining())
        {
        	int insertionIndex = random.nextInt(buttons.length);
        	if(buttons[insertionIndex] == null)
        	{
        		buttons[insertionIndex] = new FishingButton(model, this);
        		counter++;
        	}
        }
        for (int index = 0; index < buttons.length; index++)
        {
            // if the current index is null
            if (buttons[index] == null)
            {
                //add an EmptyButton() 
                buttons[index] = new EmptyButton(model, this);
            }
        }
        // Loop to add all of the contents of the buttonGrid into the gamePanel
        for (int index = 0; index < buttons.length; index++)
        {
            //add buttons to panel
            gridPanel.add(buttons[index]);
        }
        
        
		setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		pack();
		setVisible(true);
		
		JPanel contents = new JPanel();
		add(contents, BorderLayout.EAST);
		contents.add(new JLabel("Tries"));
		//create a new slider with a 0-30 range and set initial to 0
        JSlider triesSlider = new JSlider (JSlider.VERTICAL, 0, 30,0);
        //set the major ticks to every 10
        triesSlider.setMajorTickSpacing(10);
        //set the minor ticks to every 1
        triesSlider.setMinorTickSpacing(1);
        //paint the ticks
        triesSlider.setPaintTicks(true);
        //make the label visible
        triesSlider.setPaintLabels(true);
        contents.add(triesSlider);
        triesSlider.addChangeListener(new ChangeListener() 
        {
            public void stateChanged(ChangeEvent e) { 
                //set value of slider to current speed although you have to click on slider to update which is dumb
                triesSlider.setValue(model.getTriesRemaining());
                // when manually changing the slider via mouse, set textfield text accordingly, but this won't work unless wecomment out above but go ahead and try it
                //speedTextField.setText(triesSlider.getValue() + "");
                
            }
        });
        contents.add(new JLabel("Fish"));
		//create a new slider with a 0-10 range and set initial to 0
        JSlider fishSlider = new JSlider (JSlider.VERTICAL, 0, 10,0);
        //set the major ticks to every 10
        fishSlider.setMajorTickSpacing(5);
        //set the minor ticks to every 5
        fishSlider.setMinorTickSpacing(1);
        //paint the ticks
        fishSlider.setPaintTicks(true);
        //make the label visible
        fishSlider.setPaintLabels(true);
        contents.add(fishSlider);
        fishSlider.addChangeListener(new ChangeListener() 
        {
            public void stateChanged(ChangeEvent e) 
            { 
                //set value of slider to current speed although you have to click on slider to update which is dumb
                fishSlider.setValue(model.getFishRemaining());
            	
                
            }
        });
	}