Under the View menu, there is the "Check-Box" mode.
Is there a way to make it act the way it does in explorer? Right now, the check boxes do not correspond with the blue selected files. But I see no benefit to having a selection of checkboxes and a different selection of blue highlighted files. Is there anything that can be done to the non-checked but blue highlighted files in the Check-Box mode? If not, isn't the explorer method better because then the selection can be restarted just by clicking a different item. It is also more straightforward. Either control-click to add to the selection OR click the check box to add to the selection.
If there is a benefit to the two different selections at the same time, then it may be worth it, but I haven't found any.