diff --git a/llama-index-integrations/llms/llama-index-llms-bedrock-converse/llama_index/llms/bedrock_converse/utils.py b/llama-index-integrations/llms/llama-index-llms-bedrock-converse/llama_index/llms/bedrock_converse/utils.py
index 6240b6cfa632776bb7d62722c9f9e49b475d5694..7e0be3f506bb009e63176ea6f237b125bec6c9d3 100644
--- a/llama-index-integrations/llms/llama-index-llms-bedrock-converse/llama_index/llms/bedrock_converse/utils.py
+++ b/llama-index-integrations/llms/llama-index-llms-bedrock-converse/llama_index/llms/bedrock_converse/utils.py
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ def messages_to_converse_messages(
                     "toolUseId": message.additional_kwargs["tool_call_id"],
                     "content": [
                         {
-                            "text": message.content,
+                            "text": message.content or "",
                         },
                     ],
                 }
diff --git a/llama-index-integrations/llms/llama-index-llms-bedrock-converse/pyproject.toml b/llama-index-integrations/llms/llama-index-llms-bedrock-converse/pyproject.toml
index 262edb4955ba51b7ecb5e0b9ce27f474a84d708d..572224311da1749eaf44cabb6fd69961f0b14952 100644
--- a/llama-index-integrations/llms/llama-index-llms-bedrock-converse/pyproject.toml
+++ b/llama-index-integrations/llms/llama-index-llms-bedrock-converse/pyproject.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ exclude = ["**/BUILD"]
 license = "MIT"
 name = "llama-index-llms-bedrock-converse"
 readme = "README.md"
-version = "0.4.7"
+version = "0.4.8"
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 python = ">=3.9,<4.0"