CountDownLatch InterruptedException

I am using the CountDownLatch to synchronize an initialization process between two threads and I was wondering about the proper handling of the InterruptedException that it might throw.

the code i initially wrote was this:

    private CountDownLatch initWaitHandle = new CountDownLatch(1);
    /**
     * This method will block until the thread has fully initialized, this should only be called from different threads  Ensure that the thread has started before this is called.
     */
    public void ensureInitialized()
    {
        assert this.isAlive() : "The thread should be started before calling this method.";
        assert Thread.currentThread() != this, "This should be called from a different thread (potential deadlock)";
        while(true)
        {
            try
            {
                //we wait until the updater thread initializes the cache
                //that way we know 
                initWaitHandle.await();
                break;//if we get here the latch is zero and we are done
            } 
            catch (InterruptedException e)
            {
                LOG.warn("Thread interrupted", e);
            }
        }
    }

Does this pattern make sense? Basically is it a good idea to ignore the InterruptedException just keep waiting until it succeeds. I guess I just don't understand the situations under which this would get interrupted so I don't know if I should be handling them differently.

Why would an InterruptedException get thrown here, what is the best practice for handling it?