Why boolean in Java takes only true or false? Why not 1 or 0 also?

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Java, unlike languages like C and C++, treats boolean as a completely separate data type which has 2 distinct values: true and false. The values 1 and 0 are of type int and are not implicitly convertible to boolean.

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