diff --git a/ld-celluloid-eventsource.gemspec b/ld-celluloid-eventsource.gemspec
index 5216fe9..83c0554 100644
--- a/ld-celluloid-eventsource.gemspec
+++ b/ld-celluloid-eventsource.gemspec
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ require 'celluloid/eventsource/version'
 Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.name          = "ld-celluloid-eventsource"
   spec.version       = Celluloid::EventSource::VERSION
-  spec.authors       = ["Leo Correa"]
-  spec.email         = ["lcorr005@gmail.com"]
+  spec.authors       = ["LaunchDarkly"]
+  spec.email         = ["dev@launchdarkly.com"]
   spec.description   = %q{Celluloid::IO based library to consume Server-Sent Events. This library was forked from https://github.com/Tonkpils/celluloid-eventsource}
   spec.summary       = %q{ld-celluloid-eventsource is a gem to consume SSE streaming API.}
   spec.homepage      = "https://github.com/launchdarkly/celluloid-eventsource"
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.require_paths = ["lib"]
 
   spec.add_dependency 'celluloid-io', '~> 0.17.3'
+  spec.add_dependency 'celluloid', '~> 0.18.0.pre'
   spec.add_dependency 'http_parser.rb', '~> 0.6.0'
 
   spec.add_development_dependency 'atomic', '~> 1.1'
diff --git a/lib/celluloid/eventsource.rb b/lib/celluloid/eventsource.rb
index 86c1273..5d38f04 100644
--- a/lib/celluloid/eventsource.rb
+++ b/lib/celluloid/eventsource.rb
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 module Celluloid
   class EventSource
     include Celluloid::IO
+    Celluloid.boot
 
     attr_reader :url, :with_credentials
     attr_reader :ready_state