diff --git a/google-http-client-apache-v5/src/main/java/com/google/api/client/http/apache/v5/Apache5ResponseContent.java b/google-http-client-apache-v5/src/main/java/com/google/api/client/http/apache/v5/Apache5ResponseContent.java
index 9de1be6c9..c2d3091df 100644
--- a/google-http-client-apache-v5/src/main/java/com/google/api/client/http/apache/v5/Apache5ResponseContent.java
+++ b/google-http-client-apache-v5/src/main/java/com/google/api/client/http/apache/v5/Apache5ResponseContent.java
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 package com.google.api.client.http.apache.v5;
 
+import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.ClassicHttpResponse;
+import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpResponse;
 
 /**
  * Class that wraps an {@link org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpEntity}'s content {@link InputStream}
@@ -65,4 +67,9 @@ public void close() throws IOException {
   public boolean markSupported() {
     return wrappedStream.markSupported();
   }
+
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  HttpResponse getResponse() {
+    return response;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/google-http-client-apache-v5/src/test/java/com/google/api/client/http/apache/v5/Apache5HttpRequestTest.java b/google-http-client-apache-v5/src/test/java/com/google/api/client/http/apache/v5/Apache5HttpRequestTest.java
index 327922dc0..3b7ca4a21 100644
--- a/google-http-client-apache-v5/src/test/java/com/google/api/client/http/apache/v5/Apache5HttpRequestTest.java
+++ b/google-http-client-apache-v5/src/test/java/com/google/api/client/http/apache/v5/Apache5HttpRequestTest.java
@@ -21,19 +21,24 @@
 import com.google.api.client.http.ByteArrayContent;
 import com.google.api.client.http.HttpContent;
 import com.google.api.client.http.InputStreamContent;
+import com.google.api.client.http.LowLevelHttpResponse;
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.classic.methods.HttpPost;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.classic.methods.HttpUriRequestBase;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.ClassicHttpRequest;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.ClassicHttpResponse;
+import org.apache.hc.core5.http.ContentType;
+import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpEntity;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpHost;
+import org.apache.hc.core5.http.io.entity.BasicHttpEntity;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.protocol.HttpContext;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 public class Apache5HttpRequestTest {
-
   @Test
   public void testContentLengthSet() throws Exception {
     HttpUriRequestBase base = new HttpPost("http://www.google.com");
@@ -79,4 +84,48 @@ public ClassicHttpResponse executeOpen(
     assertTrue(base.getEntity().isChunked());
     assertEquals(-1, base.getEntity().getContentLength());
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testExecute_closeContent_closesResponse() throws Exception {
+    HttpUriRequestBase base = new HttpPost("http://www.google.com");
+    final InputStream responseContentStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(new byte[] {1, 2, 3});
+    BasicHttpEntity testEntity =
+        new BasicHttpEntity(responseContentStream, ContentType.DEFAULT_BINARY);
+    AtomicInteger closedResponseCounter = new AtomicInteger(0);
+    ClassicHttpResponse classicResponse =
+        new MockClassicHttpResponse() {
+          @Override
+          public HttpEntity getEntity() {
+            return testEntity;
+          }
+
+          @Override
+          public void close() {
+            closedResponseCounter.incrementAndGet();
+          }
+        };
+
+    Apache5HttpRequest request =
+        new Apache5HttpRequest(
+            new MockHttpClient() {
+              @Override
+              public ClassicHttpResponse executeOpen(
+                  HttpHost target, ClassicHttpRequest request, HttpContext context) {
+                return classicResponse;
+              }
+            },
+            base);
+    LowLevelHttpResponse response = request.execute();
+    assertTrue(response instanceof Apache5HttpResponse);
+
+    // we confirm that the classic response we prepared in this test is the same as the content's
+    // response
+    assertTrue(response.getContent() instanceof Apache5ResponseContent);
+    assertEquals(classicResponse, ((Apache5ResponseContent) response.getContent()).getResponse());
+
+    // we close the response's content stream and confirm the response is also closed
+    assertEquals(0, closedResponseCounter.get());
+    response.getContent().close();
+    assertEquals(1, closedResponseCounter.get());
+  }
 }