diff --git a/src/transformers/cache_utils.py b/src/transformers/cache_utils.py
index e6f2645a766e..3165a0616c4b 100644
--- a/src/transformers/cache_utils.py
+++ b/src/transformers/cache_utils.py
@@ -1069,6 +1069,17 @@ def __init__(
         offload_only_non_sliding: bool = True,
         **kwargs,
     ):
+        if kwargs:
+            raise TypeError(f"Unknown arguments passed to StaticCache: {list(kwargs.keys())}")
+
+        if not isinstance(offloading, bool):
+            raise TypeError(
+                f"`offloading` must be a bool, got {type(offloading)}. "
+                "Did you accidentally pass `device` as a positional argument?"
+            )
+        if not isinstance(offload_only_non_sliding, bool):
+            raise TypeError(f"`offload_only_non_sliding` must be a bool, got {type(offload_only_non_sliding)}.")
+
         config = config.get_text_config(decoder=True)
         layer_types = getattr(config, "layer_types", None)
         # If `layer_types` is not explicitly provided, infer if the model is fully sliding
diff --git a/tests/utils/test_cache_utils.py b/tests/utils/test_cache_utils.py
index b3b03c49f5e3..5734ce8bc7e1 100644
--- a/tests/utils/test_cache_utils.py
+++ b/tests/utils/test_cache_utils.py
@@ -937,6 +937,28 @@ def test_static_cache(self):
             static_cache.layers[0].keys[0, 0, :, 0].tolist(), [1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0], "StaticCache Scenario 2 failed"
         )
 
+    def test_static_cache_type_checks(self):
+        """Test that StaticCache validates offloading types and unknown kwargs."""
+        cache = StaticCache(
+            config=self.config, max_cache_len=self.max_cache_len, offloading=True, offload_only_non_sliding=False
+        )
+        self.assertIsInstance(cache, StaticCache)
+
+        # Passing wrong type for offloading should raise TypeError
+        with self.assertRaises(TypeError) as cm:
+            StaticCache(config=self.config, max_cache_len=self.max_cache_len, offloading="cuda:0")
+        self.assertIn("`offloading` must be a bool", str(cm.exception))
+
+        # Passing wrong type for offload_only_non_sliding should raise TypeError
+        with self.assertRaises(TypeError) as cm:
+            StaticCache(config=self.config, max_cache_len=self.max_cache_len, offload_only_non_sliding=1)
+        self.assertIn("`offload_only_non_sliding` must be a bool", str(cm.exception))
+
+        # Passing unknown kwargs should raise TypeError
+        with self.assertRaises(TypeError) as cm:
+            StaticCache(config=self.config, max_cache_len=self.max_cache_len, foo="bar")
+        self.assertIn("Unknown arguments passed to StaticCache", str(cm.exception))
+
     def test_sliding_window_cache(self):
         """Test fully sliding StaticCache with manually prefilled states and hardcoded assertions.