diff --git a/okhttp/src/commonJvmAndroid/kotlin/okhttp3/MultipartBody.kt b/okhttp/src/commonJvmAndroid/kotlin/okhttp3/MultipartBody.kt
index 6407ce29ea6b..abd8cc48f8ca 100644
--- a/okhttp/src/commonJvmAndroid/kotlin/okhttp3/MultipartBody.kt
+++ b/okhttp/src/commonJvmAndroid/kotlin/okhttp3/MultipartBody.kt
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ import okio.Buffer
 import okio.BufferedSink
 import okio.ByteString
 import okio.ByteString.Companion.encodeUtf8
+import okio.ForwardingSink
+import okio.Sink
+import okio.buffer
 
 /**
  * An [RFC 2387][rfc_2387]-compliant request body.
@@ -160,7 +163,7 @@ class MultipartBody internal constructor(
       if (countBytes) {
         byteCount += contentLength
       } else {
-        body.writeTo(sink)
+        NoCloseSink(sink).buffer().use(body::writeTo)
       }
 
       sink.write(CRLF)
@@ -377,4 +380,10 @@ class MultipartBody internal constructor(
       append('"')
     }
   }
+
+  private class NoCloseSink(
+    sink: Sink,
+  ) : ForwardingSink(sink) {
+    override fun close() {}
+  }
 }
diff --git a/okhttp/src/commonJvmAndroid/kotlin/okhttp3/RequestBody.kt b/okhttp/src/commonJvmAndroid/kotlin/okhttp3/RequestBody.kt
index be595678aa92..22d4995fbf3b 100644
--- a/okhttp/src/commonJvmAndroid/kotlin/okhttp3/RequestBody.kt
+++ b/okhttp/src/commonJvmAndroid/kotlin/okhttp3/RequestBody.kt
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ abstract class RequestBody {
   @Throws(IOException::class)
   open fun contentLength(): Long = -1L
 
-  /** Writes the content of this request to [sink]. */
+  /** Writes the content of this request to [sink]. This should not close [sink]. */
   @Throws(IOException::class)
   abstract fun writeTo(sink: BufferedSink)
 
diff --git a/okhttp/src/jvmTest/kotlin/okhttp3/MultipartBodyTest.kt b/okhttp/src/jvmTest/kotlin/okhttp3/MultipartBodyTest.kt
index a2b69d015ec0..2df3855b96bb 100644
--- a/okhttp/src/jvmTest/kotlin/okhttp3/MultipartBodyTest.kt
+++ b/okhttp/src/jvmTest/kotlin/okhttp3/MultipartBodyTest.kt
@@ -24,8 +24,11 @@ import okhttp3.Headers.Companion.headersOf
 import okhttp3.MediaType.Companion.toMediaType
 import okhttp3.MediaType.Companion.toMediaTypeOrNull
 import okhttp3.RequestBody.Companion.toRequestBody
+import okhttp3.internal.http.GzipRequestBody
 import okio.Buffer
 import okio.BufferedSink
+import okio.ForwardingSink
+import okio.buffer
 import okio.utf8Size
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test
 
@@ -254,6 +257,71 @@ class MultipartBodyTest {
     assertThat(buffer.readUtf8()).isEqualTo(expected)
   }
 
+  @Test
+  fun partThatClosesTheSink() {
+    class ClosingBody(
+      private val body: String,
+    ) : RequestBody() {
+      override fun contentType(): MediaType? = null
+
+      @Throws(IOException::class)
+      override fun writeTo(sink: BufferedSink) {
+        sink.writeUtf8(body)
+        sink.close()
+      }
+    }
+
+    val expected =
+      """
+      |--123
+      |
+      |hello
+      |--123
+      |
+      |world
+      |--123--
+      |
+      """.trimMargin().replace("\n", "\r\n")
+    val body =
+      MultipartBody
+        .Builder("123")
+        .addPart(ClosingBody("hello"))
+        .addPart("world".toRequestBody(null))
+        .build()
+    val buffer = Buffer()
+    // Don't write to Buffer directly: Buffer.close() is a no-op. Wrap it so close()
+    // actually closes the sink, like a real HTTP write.
+    val sink = object : ForwardingSink(buffer) {}.buffer()
+    body.writeTo(sink)
+    sink.close()
+    assertThat(buffer.readUtf8()).isEqualTo(expected)
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  fun gzippedParts() {
+    val body =
+      MultipartBody
+        .Builder("123")
+        .addPart(GzipRequestBody("part1".toRequestBody(null)))
+        .addPart(GzipRequestBody("part2".toRequestBody(null)))
+        .build()
+
+    val expected = Buffer()
+    expected.writeUtf8("--123\r\n\r\n")
+    GzipRequestBody("part1".toRequestBody(null)).writeTo(expected)
+    expected.writeUtf8("\r\n--123\r\n\r\n")
+    GzipRequestBody("part2".toRequestBody(null)).writeTo(expected)
+    expected.writeUtf8("\r\n--123--\r\n")
+
+    val buffer = Buffer()
+    // Don't write to Buffer directly: Buffer.close() is a no-op. Wrap it so close()
+    // actually closes the sink, like a real HTTP write.
+    val sink = object : ForwardingSink(buffer) {}.buffer()
+    body.writeTo(sink)
+    sink.close()
+    assertThat(buffer.readUtf8()).isEqualTo(expected.readUtf8())
+  }
+
   @Test
   fun contentTypeHeaderIsForbidden() {
     val multipart = MultipartBody.Builder()