Hi there,
apologies for the delay.

Not through the options, you would need to customize the homepage template. Making this modification would work. Customizations not usually covered but since my late reply I will try to help you out with this

Open page-templates/homepage.php, on line 72 where you see this:

$custom_query_args = array(
 'post_type' => 'post', 
 'posts_per_page'=> get_option( 'posts_per_page' ),
 'paged' => $paged,
 'post_status' => 'publish',
 );

add the category_name parameter, like this:

$custom_query_args = array(
 'post_type' => 'post', 
 'posts_per_page'=> get_option( 'posts_per_page' ),
 'paged' => $paged,
 'post_status' => 'publish',
 'category_name' => 'your-category-slug-here',
 );

should help

Another option, if you don't want to edit files, would be to set up a category page as a homepage through a redirect in your .htaccess or something like that, but I don't think that would be ideal.

Hope it helps