We consider graphs Gn generated by multisets [Iscr ]n with n random integers as elements, such that vertices of Gn are connected by edges if the elements of [Iscr ]n that the vertices represent are the same, and prove asymptotic results on the sparsity of edges connecting the different subgraphs Gn of the random graph generated by ∪∞n=1[Iscr ]n. These results are of independent interest and, for two models of the bootstrap, we also use them here to link almost sure and complete convergence of the corresponding bootstrap means and averages of related randomly chosen subsequences of a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables with a finite mean. Complete convergence of these means and averages is then characterized in terms of a relationship between a moment condition on the bootstrapped sequence and the bootstrap sample size. While we also obtain new sufficient conditions for the almost sure convergence of bootstrap means, the approach taken here yields the first necessary conditions.