File not fond exception while uploading to drive

Question

I have checked the past questions and they do not help in this situation. 1

FileNotFoundException when CREATING a google drive file

2

In my case, I am trying to upload a file that I received in a curl request to drive.

public static void uploadFile(Drive driveService, java.io.File fileToUpload, String name){
        File fileMetadata = new   File();
        if(StringUtils.isEmpty(name)){
            name = "Test";
        }
        fileMetadata.setName(name);
        fileMetadata.setMimeType(SHEETS_MIME_TYPE);

        FileContent mediaContent = new FileContent(XLSX_FILE_APPLICATION_TYPE, fileToUpload);
        File file = null;
        try {
            file = driveService.files().create(fileMetadata, mediaContent)
                    .setFields(ID_FIELD)
                    .execute();

        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        log.info("File ID: {} " , file.getId());
    }

As you can see, fileToUpload field passes the file that was received as part of the curl request. However, whenever I try to upload it, I get this error java.io.FileNotFoundException: files (No such file or directory)

Thanks

EDIT -

The code for generating the file object fileToUpload:

@RequestMapping(value = "/file", method = RequestMethod.POST, consumes = "multipart/form-data")
    public String uploadFileToDrive(@RequestParam("files") MultipartFile multipartFile) throws Exception {
        if(Objects.isNull(multipartFile)){
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("No file present");
        }
        File file = new File(multipartFile.getName());
        multipartFile.transferTo(file);
        GoogleDriveClientService.uploadFile(driveService, file, "spring1");